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Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde, more than 2,600 meters above sea level in southwestern Colorado, is home to a large number of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings built between the 6th and 12th centuries. Some 4,400 sites have been documented, including villages built atop Mesa Hill. There are also magnificent cliff dwellings built of stone with more than 100 rooms.
Chaco Culture
For more than 2,000 years, the Pueblo people have inhabited a large area of the southwestern United States. Chaco Canyon was the main center of the Ancestral Pueblo culture from 850 to 1250 AD and the center of ceremonial, trade, and political activity in the prehistoric Four Corners region. Chaco is known for its magnificent public and ceremonial buildings and unique architecture—it features an ancient urban ceremonial center unlike anything built before or since. In addition to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the World Heritage Site includes Aztec Ruins National Monument and several smaller Chaco sites managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes
The Paquime da Casas reached their peak in the 14th and 15th centuries, playing a key role in trade and cultural exchange between the Pueblo cultures of the American Southwest and northern Mexico and the more advanced civilizations of Mesoamerica. The vast remains (only a part of which has been excavated) clearly testify to the dynamism of this culture, which was perfectly adapted to its material and economic environment, but which suddenly disappeared at the time of the Spanish conquest.