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Montezuma Castle is located near Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States. It was built by a divine hero named Montezuma whose name may have been connected with the historical Aztec emperor of Mexico, Montezuma II, and accounts in Spanish as early as 1694 reference them as the "Casas de Montezuma". The five-story stone and mortar dwellings contain 20 rooms and once housed about 50 people. A natural overhang shades the rooms and shelters them from rain. Another part of the cliff wall bears the marks of an even larger dwelling, which has not survived.
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