Cliff Palace
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Andrew c, Public domain.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: human settlement in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, United States of America
- Also known as: “Cliff Palace, CO”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mesa Verde Superintendent’s Residence.
Mesa Verde Superintendent’s Residence
House
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mesa Verde Superintendent’s Residence is a house, which is situated 1½ miles northwest of Cliff Palace.
Cliff Palace
- Categories: village, archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Montezuma, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.16663° or 37° 9′ 60″ northLongitude
-108.473° or 108° 28′ 23″ westElevation
6,811 feet (2,076 metres)Open location code
859H5G8G+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1137767736OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
5417246Wikidata ID
Q2979068
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Cliff Palace” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Քլիֆ պալատ”
- Breton: “Cliff Palace”
- Dutch: “Cliff Palace”
- French: “Cliff Palace”
- Hebrew: “ארמון הצוק”
- Indonesian: “Istana Tebing”
- Persian: “کلیف پالاس”
- Polish: “Pałac Klifowy”
- Russian: “Клифф Пэлас”
- Russian: “Клифф-Пэлас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cliff Palace”
- Spanish: “Cliff Palace”
- Ukrainian: “Кліфф Палац”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cliff Palace”. Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.