Yucca House National Monument

Yucca House is located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Colorado National Monument in the United States of America. It protects the still not excavated buildings of Anasazi settlement and is located approximately 70 kilometers west of Durango in Montezuma County. The buried ruins date from the 12th to the 13th centuries and represent one of the largest archaeological sites in southwestern Colorado.

History

Yucca House was first mentioned in 1877 by Prof. William H. Holmes, a landscape, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS), who described the two most obvious hill as Upper House (Upper House ) and Lower House ( the lower house). The Upper House was formed at around 600 rooms and 100 kivas the imposing center, which towered over the other buildings around five to six meters. Holmes - originally held the estate for a place of the Aztecs and they therefore called Aztec Springs - also discovered in the Lower House at least eight other rooms that formed an L-shaped addition to a central Pueblo Kiva and were surrounded by a small wall.

The name of the Yucca house dates to the earlier - back label for the Sleeping Ute Mountain, at the foot of the settlement was - used by the Anasazi. The term used at that time due to the mountain vegetation was literally " mountain of Yucca ".

National Monument

The Yucca House was declared the end of 1919 by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson National Monument and recorded on October 15, 1966 to the National Register of Historic Places. The facility provided without service facilities will be supported by the administration of nearby Mesa Verde National Park and can be accessed free of charge.