The entire town, nearly 1,000 years old, carved into the cliff, has 150 rooms and 100 residents.

Cliff Palace, located in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado (USA), is considered the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure was built by the ancient Pueblo people around the mid-1100s.

The entire town, nearly 1,000 years old, carved into the cliff, has 150 rooms and 100 residents.

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Cliff Palace, located in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado (USA), is considered the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure was built by the ancient Pueblo people around the mid-1100s.

This unique four-story stone structure was accidentally discovered in 1888 by two Colorado ranchers while searching for missing cattle. According to USAtoday.

The structure was built by the ancient Pueblo people around the mid-1100s. According to USAtoday.

The structure has 150 rooms, 23 kivas and was home to more than 100 residents in the 13th century, according to USAtoday.

The Pueblo people built this structure from hand-hewn stone blocks. According to USAtoday.

The structure is made primarily of sandstone, wooden beams and a homemade mortar made from soil, water and ash. According to USAtoday.

The rooms are usually about 1.8 x 2.4 m wide, and are the living space of families. According to USAtoday.

From the late 13th century, after the Pueblo people left, until the 1880s, the original structure of Cliff Palace was exposed to the effects of water, wind, freeze-thaw cycles, and animals, according to USAtoday.

Archaeologists believe that Cliff Palace was a socio-cultural and administrative site with regular ceremonies. According to USAtoday.

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