WE VISITED THE MONUMENT AS GRADUATE STUDENTS. THE PREHISTORIC CLIFF DWELLING VILLAGE VILLAGE IS LOCATED IN FORT VERDE STATE HISTORIC PARK. IT WAS BUILT BY A CULTURE WHO LIVED HERE ABOUT 700 AD. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PUEBLON VILLAGE AND NAMED DISCOVERED IT IN 1860 AFTER THE AZTEC EMPEROR MONTEZUMA. THEY MISTAKENLY BELLIEVED THAT THE EMPEROR WAS CONNECTED TO THIS CASTLE. IT IS A MONUMENT PRESERVED FOR TOURISTS. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST PRESERVED DWELLINGS IN NORTH AMERICA. THE SINAGUA BEFORE 1125 AD RAISED CROPS AND HUNTED AND COLLECTED GRAINSON HILLS NEARBY. AFTER 1125 THEY SETTLED IN VERDE VALLEY AND USED IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LEFT BY THE HOHOKAM. THE SINAGUA LEFT THIS AREA ABOUT 1425 AD. POSSIBLY THEY ABANDONED IT BUT NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE. POSSIBLY WARFARE OR DROUGHT.
THIS VILLAGE HAD FIVE STORIES OF STONE AND MORTAR WITH 20 ROOMS AND PROBABLY HOUSED 50 PEOPLE. AN EVEN LARGER CLIFF DWELLING WAS NEARBY BUT DID NOT SURVIVE. IN 1906 IT WAS DECLARED A NATIONAL MONUMENT. LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF THIS CASTLE IS MONTEZUMA'S WELL, A NATURAL LIMESTONE SINKHOLE. 1,400,00 GALLONS OF WATER FLOW EACH DAY THROUGH THESE SPRINGS. IT IS VERY SACRED TO THE YAVAPAI WHO BELIEVE THEY EMERGED INTO THE WORLD FROM THE WELL. IT IS USED TO IRRIGATE FIELDS SINCE THE 8TH CENTURY.
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