Montezuma's Castle - Camp Verde, AZ
Posted by: bluesnote
N 34° 36.721 W 111° 50.502
12S E 422831 N 3830339
Montezuma's Castle is a must see if you are in the Sedona Area.
Waymark Code: WMBA60
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 04/25/2011
Views: 26
"Montezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States, features well-preserved cliff-dwellings. They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people, northern cousins of the Hohokam, around 700 AD. Several Hopi clans trace their roots to immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to their former homes for religious ceremonies. When European Americans discovered them in the 1860s, they named them for the Aztec emperor (of Mexico) Montezuma II, due to mistaken beliefs that the emperor had been connected to their construction.(See also Montezuma (mythology).) Neither part of the monument's name is correct. The Sinaqua dwelling was abandoned 100 years before Montezuma was even born and the Dwellings were not a castle. It was more like a "prehistoric high rise apartment complex." (
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