Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table") is a World Heritage site and National Park situated in Montezuma County, Colorado. The park helps to protect some of the finest conserved Ancestral archeological sites in the United States. It has more than 4,300 sites, conquers 52,485 acres around the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. 600 cliff dwellings, which is the largest archeological preserve in the US included in those sites. Mesa Verde is best known for buildings such as Cliff Palace, considered to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The park was formed in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. Starting up c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was populated by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex.
