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Canyon de Chelly National Monument (/ d ə ˈ ʃ eɪ / də-SHAY) was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service. Located in northeastern Arizona , it is within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation and lies in the Four Corners region.
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, United States (from Navajo Tséyiʼ, which means "canyon" ) Cheile Cheii, Vâlcea, Romania (Gorges' Gorges – Romanian) Col de Port, Ariège, France (Pass Pass – French and Occitan) Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France (Coast of Coast – French and Breton) Cuesta Grade, California (grade grade – Spanish and English)
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Canyonlands National Park , canyons of the Colorado River and its main tributary the Green River , Utah Canyons of the Escalante , Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument , Utah
Its name is derived from the Navajo word ch'inili meaning 'where the waters came out. Its sources is in Canyon de Chelly National Monument where Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto have their confluence at an elevation of 5,616 feet at 36°08′35″N 109°29′17″W / 36.14306°N 109.48806°W / 36.14306; -109.
Satellite image of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, including the Four Corners Monument (FC). Snow dusts higher elevations in the image. Labeled natural features are the Chuska Mountains (CM), the Carrizo Mountains (C), Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park (MV), Black Mesa (B), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (CdC), and the Defiance Uplift-() (D).
The Thunderbird Lodge. The Thunderbird Lodge is a historic motel in Chinle, Arizona.The only lodging facility within Canyon de Chelly National Monument, a national monument established in 1931, it has grown out of an old trading post built in 1896, the Thunderbird Lodge Trading Post.
The watershed origins also come from the southwest near Ganado, closer to the southwest Defiance Plateau perimeter. At Sawmill, northeast of Ganado is Bonito Canyon a northwest tributary to south-flowing Black Creek. The water divide separating the Chinle Creek watershed, (southeast, with Canyon de Chelly), is 3-mi [3] north-northeast of Sawmill.
The Totem Pole is a pillar or rock spire found in Monument Valley. [3] It is a highly eroded remnant of a butte.. Deserts at the end of the Permian period, 260 million years ago, formed the De Chelly and Wingate Sandstones that make up the buttes, totems, and mesas in Monument Valley.