Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado
Sacred Palaces in the Rocks Mesa Verde National Park is located in southwestern Colorado. The size of the national park is 210 km². Mesa Verde means “green mountain”. Over 600 ruined dwellings have been found in Mesa Verde so far. They were mostly built under overhanging sand rocks. The apartments were built by the Pueblo Indians (Anasazi) with mud bricks, some of them several stories high. The settlements in their current form probably came into being in the 12th century…
