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Between approximately 500 ADE and 1200 ADE, Pueblo peoples built, maintained, and expanded an impressive network of cave and cliff dwellings in what is now Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
One of the most famous is Cliff Palace on Chapin Mesa, a sprawling estate with 150 rooms. Roughly two dozen Indigenous tribes consider Cliff Palace their ancestral home.