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Website. Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically significant landscape located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Colorado. The monument's 176,056 acres (712.47 km 2) [ 1] are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, as directed in ...
Mesa Verde National Park. / 37.1838; -108.4887. Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and the only World Heritage Site in Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ancestral sites in the United States.
Hovenweep National Monument. / 37.38389; -109.07722. Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain. Shallow tributaries run through the wide and deep canyons into the San Juan River.
Lowry Pueblo, Sand Canyon Pueblo and Roy's Ruin 48: Carnero Creek Pictographs Historical Site (La Garita) (Site ID 5SH.48) Saguache, near La Garita: Prehistoric: AD 1000–1749: Rock Art: National, State: Also a National Significant Archaeological Site. 4: Carrot Men Pictograph Site (Site ID AR-05-101-98) Rio Blanco, near Rangely: Prehistoric ...
Official site. Anasazi Heritage Center, Aerial ViewRegional map of Ancient Pueblo peoples, or Anasazi, centered on the Four Corners. The Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum(formerly the Anasazi Heritage Center) located in Dolores, Colorado, is an archaeologicalmuseumof Native Americanpuebloand hunter-gatherercultures.
Location of the City of Cortez in the United States. / 37.36806°N 108.56250°W / 37.36806; -108.56250. Cortez ( / ˈkɔːrtɛz / ⓘ) is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. [ 1] The city population was 8,766 at the 2020 United States Census.
Woods Canyon Pueblo, also known as Wood Canyon Ruin, was a Northern San Juan pueblo inhabited during the broad 1000 to 1499 period [Ancient Pueblo People left southwestern Colorado by 1300]. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [ 17 ]
Ute Peak from the north. / 37.284083°N 108.7786626°W / 37.284083; -108.7786626. Ute Mountain, also known as Ute Peak or Sleeping Ute Mountain ( / ˈjuːt /; Ute: Wisuv Káruv, Navajo: Dził Naajiní ), is a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado. It is on the northern edge of the ...