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Montezuma's Castle and Well, Arizona

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Montezuma Castle and Well were named after a guy who was never here, but the name stuck.
Here you can see Montezuma Castle built into the cliff side. It was inhabited by more than 100 people It's  a 45-50 room, pueblo ruin occupied by the Sinagua people who inhabited this riparian "oasis" along Beaver Creek for over 400 years.
Montezuma Well was formed long ago by the collapse of a limestone cavern, over one million gallons of water a day flows continuously into the Well. It has provided an oasis for wildlife and humans for thousands of years.
Montezuma Well outlets from below a rock monolith. From there, the Indians made a canal, shown here, which ran a distance of 13 miles to irrigate their fields.