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The Grand Canyon [a] is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).
Location: Coconino and Mohave counties, Arizona, United States: Nearest city: Fredonia, Arizona (North Rim) Tusayan, Arizona (South Rim): Coordinates: 2]: Area: 1,217,262 acres (4,926.08 km 2) [3]: Established: January 11, 1908 () as a national monument February 26, 1919 () as a national park: Visitors: 4,733,705 (in 2023) [4]: Governing body: National Park Service: Website: nps.gov /grca ...
English: This Grand Canyon trail map shows Grand Canyon National Park’s three most-used trails: North Kaibab, South Kaibab, and Bright Angel. Date: 25 October 2013:
The Grand Canyon Backcountry Office manages undeveloped areas of the canyon by following the 1988 Backcountry Management Plan (BMP), as amended. [4] The goal of the plan is to mitigate human impacts to ecologically sensitive areas within the park.
Toroweap Overlook (also known as Tuweep Overlook or Toroweap Point) is a viewpoint within the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, United States. It is located in a remote area on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, 55 miles (89 km) west of the North Rim Headquarters (but 148 miles (238 km) by road).
The resulting Grand Canyon Supergroup of sedimentary units is composed of nine varied geologic formations that were laid down from 1.2 billion and 740 million years ago in this sea. [11] Good exposures of the supergroup can be seen in eastern Grand Canyon in the Inner Gorge and from Desert View, Lipan Point and Moran point. [12] [note 1]
Grand Scenic Divide is a 5,667-foot-elevation (1,727-meter) ridge located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, Southwestern United States. [2] It is situated immediately north of Fossil Mountain , and 1.5 mile east of Mount Huethawali .
The Strip has a total surface area of 7,878.11 square miles (20,404.2 km 2). Of this, 7,856.45 square miles (20,348.12 km 2) is land, and only 56.08 km 2 (21.653 sq mi, or 0.275%) is water. Its land area is larger than that of the state of Massachusetts and comprises 6.9 percent of Arizona's land area. About 64.4 percent of its area is in ...
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