Acoma Pueblo , inward Valencia County inward West Central New United Mexican States , is believed to convey been established inward the twelfth century or fifty-fifty before , making it the oldest continuously inhabited community inward the United States. The pueblo or hamlet is located atop a 110-meter tall sandstone bluff , as well as until of late , could solely endure reached past times a most vertical hand-cut staircase carved into the stone face. Acoma Pueblo’s soaring location has earned it the nickname of “Sky City” , as well as has impressed everybody who has put eyes on it —from the kickoff European to the modern visitor.
The kickoff European contact amongst Acoma was made past times the Castilian conquistador as well as explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado inward 1540 , who described it equally "one of the strongest places always seen , because the metropolis was built on a high rock”. “The rise was as well as hence hard that nosotros repented climbing to the piece of occupation past times ," he wrote.
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Sources: Wikipedia / Legends of America