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The Mesa Verde people lived in in this area, on the mountain plateau, the cliffs on the mountain sides and the lowland plains 1,400 years ago, long before the European exploration of North America. For more than 700 years their descendants lived and flourished here. This place is interesting to me because this were the original Americans lived. The U.S. National Park is preserving a spectacular reminder of a 1,000 year old American culture.