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Visit ....The Cliff Palace, Largest Commune

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This ruin is the largest and best-known of the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde. The site has 150 identified rooms and 23 kivas, an estimate of 250 residents lived here. Although this and other Mesa Verde sites are large and well constructed, they demonstrate a long history of occupation and their architectural design is an aggregation of dwellings and storage spaces that developed slowly and randomly.

Accurate archaeological information from this site has been limited due to several decades of digging and collecting at the turn of the Twentieth century.


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