Colorado’s Mesa Verde, meaning “green table,” covers approximately 52,000 acres of the Colorado Plateau. It was the first national park designed specifically to “preserve the works of man.” Those works are the cliff houses constructed by the Ancient Pueblos who once inhabited the area. Incorporated into the Mesa Verde's distinctive landforms are thousands of artifacts and dwellings left behind from 700 years of habitation.
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