The Tuzigoot National Monument pronounced Too-zee-goot, is an ancient village or pueblo built by a culture known as Sinaqua. The Sinaqua were agriculturalists with trade connections that spanned hundreds of miles.
The pueblo consisted of 110 rooms including a second and third story structure. The first buildings were built around 1000 A.D.
Resembling a castle or fort, Tuzigoot (Apache for "crooked water) is considered perhaps the most beautiful site of the Sinaqua people.
The ceilings were about six-feet-high and the pueblo is about 120 foot in height.
By the time the people left the region around 1400 A.D., the Pueblo housed perhaps 250 people in its 110 rooms. It was a city of its day, where people learned to resolve the problems of living together.
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