![]() Montezuma Well? Sinagua Sinkhole is more accurate Had to climb up the cliff walls via a series of near-vertical ladders, so Visitors by the time they were closed off to the public in 1951. National monument in 1906, and the dwellings were heavily damaged by National monument merely a drive-up, take-the-picture, visit-the-gift-shopīut the area had been heavily looted before it was declared a It’s disappointing that you can’t climb up to them today, making this “Castle” is also a misnomer, as the site wasn’t designed primarily forĭefense but rather protection from the elements: an elevated perch from Two Puebloan tribes that many groups from the area joined as they migrated north Lived across much of western and central Arizona, as well as the Hopi and Zuni, Have ties to Montezuma Castle, including the Yavapai people, who historically ![]() ![]() No fewer than nine Native American tribes Were very much Conagua folks, but I digress. Right above a creek that flooded every year, so I guess you could say they Ironically, the Sinagua people who lived at Montezuma Castle built their abode The Spanish words for “without water” or “waterless” haveīeen used to refer to these people because they made do with little rainfall,ĭiverting precious few sources of water in the desert to irrigate fields of The Indigenous people who lived in central and northern Arizona between aroundĥ CE. Stretched across southern Mexico 1,300 miles away. When clueless Anglo settlers moved into the Verde Valley in the late 1800s andĮncountered these dwellings, they used the name of an Aztec ruler whose empire Montezuma Castle? More like Sinagua Cliff Dwellings Old canals that once fed water to crops in the desert, and even a pond whereīut everything about the name of this park is just…totally, totally wrong. Protects prehistoric multi-story apartments nestled inside a limestone cliff, Right off an interstate highway in central Arizona, a national monument
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