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The Colorado Plateau is largely made up of high desert, with scattered areas of forests. In the south-west corner of the Colorado Plateau lies the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Much of the Plateau's landscape is related to the Grand Canyon in both appearance and geologic history.
In northeastern Arizona is Monument Valley, where sharp spires, obelisks, and tower-like masses of rock rise hundreds of feet above their surroundings. At the eastern margin of the Canyon Lands is the Mesa Verde , a huge cuesta that has been deeply dissected by streams.
The Colorado Plateau is a semi-arid, mostly flat-lying region ranging from 5,000 to 8,000 feet (1524 m to 2438 m) in elevation, [2] centered on the Four Corners region. The Colorado Plateau encompasses an area of approximately 140,000 square miles (360,000 km 2). [23] It consists of northern Arizona, except for a small portion of northwestern ...
Colorado Plateau: Colorado Plateau: Grand Canyon: Grand Canyon: Kaibab Plateau: Kaibab Plateau: Lower Colorado River Valley: Lower Colorado River regions Regions below Hoover Dam south to the Colorado River Delta(Mexico) see: Category:Lower Colorado River Valley: Madrean sky islands: Madrean sky islands, Southern Arizona, near Tucson, Nogales ...
The sand desert shrub (SDS) is a plant community, or vegetation type, found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region in areas of shifting sands or very sandy soils. [ 1 ] : 3 Dominant plant species include old man sage ( Artemisia filifolia ), yucca , Indian ricegrass ( Stipa hymenoides ), and wavy leaf oak ( Quercus welshii ).
The White Mountains are a part of the Colorado Plateau high country of Northeast Arizona, the Navajo Nation, with the rest of the Plateau in eastern Utah, northwest New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado. Nearby communities include Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside, Greer, St. Johns, Springerville, Eagar, and McNary.
The north is bordered by the east–west Arizona/New Mexico Plateau (22), ecoregion which is part of and is the southern region of the Colorado Plateau. The north region of the Colorado Plateau covers eastern Utah/western Colorado and is the Colorado Plateaus (ecoregion) (20). The extreme southern perimeter of the Colorado Plateaus ecoregion ...
The main plant communities, or zones, are woodlands, mountain woodlands, and grassland and shrub. The woodland zone, or pinyon-juniper woodland, covers the largest area.. It consists of open woodlands of short trees, mostly pinyon pine (Pinus edulis throughout the ecoregion, and Pinus monophylla subsp. fallax in the southwestern portion of the ecoregion) and species of juniper (Juniperus spp