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14 wrz 2024 · Night Sky. The Night Skies are always something to marvel at, and who knows you may even get lucky and see the aurora every few years. Plants. Group of yellow prairie coneflowers with blurred landscape in the background. Backpacking in the Gila Wilderness. A wide shot taken overlooking the Middle Fork of the Gila. Last updated: September 14, 2024.
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6 mar 2007 · Release Date: Jun 16, 2021. Mimbres, NM, June 16, 2021— Acting Park Superintendent Jerome Flood announces the reopening of the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument effective Thursday, June 17 at 09:00 a.m.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. The 533-acre (2.16 km 2) national monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt through executive proclamation on November 16, 1907. [3]
For thousands of years, groups of ancient nomads used caves above the Gila River as temporary shelter. In the late 1200s, people of the agricultural Mogollon (Southern Ancestral Pueblo) culture made it a home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for one or two generations.
31 paź 2023 · The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse into the homes and lives of the Mogollon people who lived there from the 1280s to the early 1300s.
Within the Gila Wilderness lies Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, unique structures built inside caves by the Mogollon people during the 13th and early 14th centuries.
A remote and less-visited national monument, the Gila Cliff Dwellings sit at the headwaters of the Gila River. Though people used the natural features for shelter over millennia, people built structures and lived in them from A.D. 1280 through the early 1300s.
