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U.S. national park in Colorado
Mesa Verde National ParkIUCN category II (national park)Mesa Verde from the northeast, May 2007Location in ColoradoShow map of ColoradoLocation in the United StatesShow map of the United StatesLocationMontezuma County, Colorado,United States,North AmericaNearestxc2xa0cityCortez, ColoradoCoordinates37xc2xb011xe2x80xb202xe2x80xb3N 108xc2xb029xe2x80xb219xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf37.183784xc2xb0N 108.488687xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 37.183784; -108.488687Coordinates: 37xc2xb011xe2x80xb202xe2x80xb3N 108xc2xb029xe2x80xb219xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf37.183784xc2xb0N 108.488687xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 37.183784; -108.488687Area52,485 acres (212.40xc2xa0km2)EstablishedJunexc2xa029,xc2xa01906xc2xa0(1906-06-29)Visitors563,420 (inxc2xa02018)[1]Governingxc2xa0bodyNational Park ServiceWebsiteMesa Verde National Park UNESCO World Heritage SiteTypeCulturalCriteriaiiiDesignated1978 (2nd session)Referencexc2xa0no.27State PartyUnited StatesRegionEurope and North America U.S. National Register of Historic PlacesDesignatedOctober 15, 1966Referencexc2xa0no.66000251
Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado.
[30] Most of the people in the region lived in the plains west of the mesa at locations such as Yellow Jacket Pueblo, near Cortez, Colorado.
In the late Cretaceous Period, the Mancos Shale was deposited on top of the Dakota Sandstone, which is the rock formation that can be found under much of Colorado.
The Mesa Verde region has long been occupied by the Utes, and an 1868 treaty between them and the United States government recognized Ute ownership of all Colorado land west of the Continental Divide.
After there had become an interest in land in western Colorado, a new treaty in 1873 left the Ute with a strip of land in southwestern Colorado between the border with New Mexico and 15 miles north.
A family of cattle ranchers, the Wetherills, befriended members of the Ute tribe near their ranch southwest of Mancos, Colorado.
Richard Wetherill, family and friends explored the ruins and gathered artifacts, some of which they sold to the Historical Society of Colorado and much of which they kept.
[123] Her efforts included enlisting support from 250,000 women through the Federation of Women's Clubs, writing and having published poems in popular magazines, giving speeches domestically and internationally, and forming the Colorado Cliff Dwellers Association.
The Colorado Cliff Dwellers' purpose was to protect the resources of Colorado cliff dwellings, reclaiming as much of the original artifacts as possible and sharing information about the people who dwelt there.
The entrance to Mesa Verde National Park is on U.S. Route 160, approximately 9 miles (14xc2xa0km) east of the community of Cortez and 7 miles (11xc2xa0km) west of Mancos, Colorado.
[146] In February 2008, the Colorado Historical Society decided to invest a part of its $7xc2xa0million budget into a culturally modified trees project in the national park.
This plateau in southwest Colorado, which sits at an altitude of more than 2,600 meters, contains a great concentration of spectacular Pueblo Indian dwellings, including the well-known cliff dwellings.