Mesa Verde National Park
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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.
Mesa Verde from the northeast, May 2007
Paleo-Indians hunting a glyptodont, by Heinrich Harder c. 1920
Archaic pictographs, c. 2500 BC, Sego Canyon, Utah
Basketmaker II basket, c. 1 to 500
Montezuma County, Colorado
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Montezuma County is a county located in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,849. The county seat is Cortez.
The Montezuma County Combined Courts building in Cortez
Prehistoric petroglyphs in Mesa Verde National Park
Castle, Hovenweep National Monument
Sign on U.S. Route 491 marking the border with Dolores County