El Morro National Monument
- El Morro National Monument
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National monument, west-central New Mexico, U.S. Established in 1906, it has an area of 2 sq mi (5 sq km).
El Morro,
or Inscription Rock,
is a soft sandstone mesa rising 200 ft (
60 m)
above the valley floor and covering several acres.
Indians,
Spaniards,
and Americans left their inscriptions (
1605–
1774)
on the cliff sides of the mesa.
El Morro also has a number of pre-
Columbian petroglyphs,
and on its top lie ruins of Zuni Indian pueblos.
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rock formation and archaeological site in west-
central New Mexico,
U.
S.,
12 miles (
19 km)
southeast of Ramah.
The monument was established in 1906 and has an area of 2 square miles (
5 square km).
El Morro (
the “
Headlands,”
or “
Bluff”),
or Inscription Rock,
is a soft sandstone mesa (
cuesta)
rising 200 feet (
60 metres)
above the valley floor.
A water catchment basin and sheltered coves at its foot made it an important camping place on the trail to the fabled cities of Cíbola (
Cíbola, Seven Cities of).
Indians,
Spaniards,
and Americans left hundreds of inscriptions (
1605–
1906)
on the cliff sides of the mesa.
The best-
known of these inscriptions was left by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate (
Oñate, Juan de)
when he passed through the region in 1605.
El Morro also has a number of pre-
Columbian petroglyphs,
and on its top lie ruins of two Ancestral Pueblo (
Ancestral Pueblo culture) (
Anasazi)
pueblos.
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Universalium.
2010.
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