Photos of Mesa Verde National Park
in Colorado, United States
(where is it? entrance to Mesa Verde National Park is off HWY 160
between Cortez and Mancos)
Note: The ancient Puebloan cliff dwellings that you will
see in Mesa
Verde National Park are not on Mesa Verde;
they are on Chapin Mesa and
Wetherill Mesa.
The people that lived in these cliff dwellings
lived on the 8,000 ft high Mesas from around 500AD to 1300AD
They created and lived
in the cliff dwellings for only the last 100 years (1200-1300) and for
some unknown reason left.
Perhaps the reason these hardy ancestors to
the modern day Puebloan peoples left the area will some day be discovered.
