About the Pajarito Plateau
For 1,000 years, from about A.D. 500 until their dispersal around 1500, the Anasazi, whose name is a Navajo word that means “the ancient ones,” lived in pueblos and cliff dwellings built in the canyons and high mesas of the Four Corners region (where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet). The Pajarito Plateau which stretches from the southern end of Bandelier National Monument north to near the Santa Clara Pueblo lies on the Eastern flank of the Valles Caldera and is bordered to the east by the Rio Grand River. The Anaszi and later the Pueblo Indians left prehispanic petroglyphs in the rugged canyons along the Rio Grande