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Robert Jones | all galleries >> US West - South West >> 2010 >> Monticello UT to Gallup NM > Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, CO
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Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, CO

This is a 5 shot panorama of the Cliff Palace



Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. Recent studies reveal that Cliff Palace contained 150 rooms and 23 kivas and had a population of approximately 100 people. Out of the nearly 600 cliff dwellings concentrated within the boundaries of the park, 75% contain only 1-5 rooms each, and many are single room storage units. If you visit Cliff Palace you will enter an exceptionally large dwelling which may have had special significance to the original occupants. It is thought that Cliff Palace was a social, administrative site with high ceremonial usage.


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