Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is the largest cliff dwelling in North America, containing approximately 150 rooms and 23 kivas built
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Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is the largest cliff dwelling in North America, containing approximately 150 rooms and 23 kivas built into a massive sandstone alcove. Constructed by the Ancestral Puebloans around 1190 CE, the complex was occupied for less than a century before being mysteriously abandoned around 1270 CE.
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