Description
Mesa Verde is located approximately 20 miles long and fifteen miles wide; its southeast boundary is the Mancos River.
History
Mesa Verde...in SW Colordo...it is the NW edge of a great coal-bearing sandstone formation which dips beneath the San Juan Basin of New Mexico. It rises to 8000 ft...the escarpment on the N is 2000 ft high, overlooking the lower plateau, arid and desolate except for several irrigated valleys. The Mancos River skirts it on the south.