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The valley sits atop the Colorado Plateau and is characterized by sandstone buttes, pinnacles, and mesas, which reach heights of up to 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the surrounding valley floor, and is considered sacred by the indigenous Navajo people.
Alex Cox's film Searchers 2.0 (2007) is about a road trip to Monument Valley. The final scenes feature a rare depiction of the area covered in snow. Jacques Mesrine and his mistress were arrested near Monument Valley in the film Mesrine (2008). Location sequences for the documentary Reel Injun (2009), on the history of Native Americans in the ...
English: The location of multiple scenic rock formations, Monument Valley straddles the border of Arizona and Utah in the southwestern United States, and is located within the Navajo Nation. The valley sits atop the Colorado Plateau and is characterized by sandstone buttes, pinnacles, and mesas, which reach heights of up to 1,000 feet (300 ...
View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
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Lying on the border of Arizona and Utah the sandstone "buttes" rise up to 1000 ft (305 m) from the valley floor. The whole area was made world famous mainly by it's being used by several "western" films particularly those by John Ford, such as Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine and She word a yellow ribbon.
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