Big Ruin, an Ancestral Puebloan cliff village, located on the face of a hard-to-access cliff within Salt Creek Canyon in The Needles District of Canyo

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Big Ruin, an Ancestral Puebloan cliff village, located on the face of a hard-to-access cliff within Salt Creek Canyon in The Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA

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Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Salt Creek, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA
Photo credit: © Lee Rentz / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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