A report on Colorado River and Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon (,, Bidááʼ Haʼaztʼiʼ Tsékooh, Southern Paiute language: Paxa’uipi, Gran Cañón or Gran Cañón del Colorado ) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.
- Grand CanyonStarting in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado, it flows generally southwest across the Colorado Plateau and through the Grand Canyon before reaching Lake Mead on the Arizona–Nevada border, where it turns south toward the international border.
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Colorado Plateau
6 linksPhysiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.
Physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.
About 90% of the area is drained by the Colorado River and its main tributaries: the Green, San Juan, and Little Colorado.
In the southwest corner of the Colorado Plateau lies the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.
Grand Canyon National Park
6 links15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park.
15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park.
The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World.
Arizona
5 linksLandlocked state in the Western United States, grouped in the Southwestern and occasionally Mountain subregions.
Landlocked state in the Western United States, grouped in the Southwestern and occasionally Mountain subregions.
Located in northern Arizona, the Grand Canyon is a colorful, deep, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River.
Lees Ferry
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Lees Ferry (also known as Lee's Ferry, Lee Ferry, Little Colorado Station and Saints Ferry ) is a site on the Colorado River in Coconino County, Arizona in the United States, about 7.5 mi southwest of Page and 9 mi south of the Utah–Arizona state line.
Today Lees Ferry is a well-known fishing and boat launching point, including for whitewater rafting trips through the Grand Canyon.
Glen Canyon Dam
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Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town of Page.
The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir; Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell, who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado River's Grand Canyon by boat.
Marble Canyon
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Marble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon in northern Arizona from Lee's Ferry to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon.
Little Colorado River
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The Little Colorado River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona, providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region.
The lower 57.2 mi is known as the Little Colorado River Gorge and forms one of the largest arms of the Grand Canyon, at over 3000 ft deep where it joins the Colorado near Desert View in Grand Canyon National Park.
Southwestern United States
2 linksGeographic and cultural region of the United States that generally includes Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.
Geographic and cultural region of the United States that generally includes Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.
The two major rivers of the region are the Colorado River, running in the northern and western areas, and the Rio Grande, running in the east, north to south.
The most dramatic example is the Grand Canyon.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
2 linksSpanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.
Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.
His expedition marked the first European sightings of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, among other landmarks.
Jacob Hamblin
3 linksWestern pioneer, a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and a diplomat to various Native American tribes of the Southwest and Great Basin.
Western pioneer, a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and a diplomat to various Native American tribes of the Southwest and Great Basin.
He traveled southeast through Pipe Springs, crossed the Buckskin Mountain (Kaibab Plateau), and forded the Colorado River at the Crossing of the Fathers which is now under Lake Powell at Padre Bay.
In 1870 he also acted as an adviser to John Wesley Powell before his second journey through the Grand Canyon.