Water Resource Management Plan. Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments, Arizona.

摘要

Montezuma Castle National Monument, including the Montezuma Well Unit, and Tuzigoot National Monument were established to preserve and protect examples of prehistoric Hohokam and Sinagua cultures in the Verde Valley of central Arizona. These sites were occupied as early as 800 A.D., with floodplain farming providing primary subsistence. Montezuma Castle was established as a monument in 1906 and preserves a 19-room, 4-story Sinagua cliff dwelling. Currently, it encompasses 580 acres along Beaver Creek in central Yavapai County, Arizona. Montezuma Well is a limnocrene (a pooled spring) fed by artesian waters arising from two or three deep fissures near its center. The Well was established in 1943 to protect prehistoric Hohokam and Sinagua sites and historic Apache sites surrounding the Well. It occupies 278 acres along Wet Beaver Creek upstream of the Castle. Administratively, the Well is a unit of Montezuma Castle. It is be collectively referred to as Montezuma Castle National Monument within this plan. Tuzigoot National Monument, established in 1939, contains the ruins of a 110-room Sinagua pueblo on almost 59 acres.