What is the Grand Canyon in Colorado?

The Grand Canyon of Colorado is a world-famous natural wonder, located on the Kaibabu Plateau in the northwest of Arizona in the western United States. The Grand Canyon is 446 kilometers long, with an average width of 16 kilometers, a maximum depth of 1740 meters and an average valley depth of 1600 meters, with a total area of 2,724 square kilometers. Because the Colorado River flows through here, it is also called the Colorado Grand Canyon, which is one of the natural heritages selected for protection by UNESCO.

The Grand Canyon is a masterpiece of the Colorado River. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, flows through Utah and Arizona, and enters the sea from California Bay in California. The total length is 2320 kilometers. Colorado means "Red River" in Spanish. This is because the river carries a lot of sediment, and the river is often red, so it is named.

The long-term scouring of the Colorado River, which runs day and night, sometimes cuts mountains and splits roads, and sometimes makes way for backflow. Black Canyon, Canyon Land, Glen Canyon, Bruce Canyon and other 19 canyons are carved in the upper reaches of the mainstream and tributaries. Finally, when it flows through the rocky Kaibabu Plateau in Arizona, it is even more amazing, forming the wonders of this grand canyon and becoming the "king of canyons" of all the canyons in this water system.

The shape of the Colorado Grand Canyon is extremely irregular, roughly east-west, with a total length of 349 kilometers. It twists and turns, like an unruly python, crawling on the Kaibabu Plateau. Its width is between 6 km and 25 km, and the canyon banks are high in the north and low in the south, with an average valley depth of 1.600 m and a valley bottom width of 762 m. The Colorado River rushes forward at the bottom of the valley, forming a spectacular scene of two mountains standing on the wall and one flowing in the water. Its majestic landforms, vast verve, awe-inspiring manner and strange scenery are unparalleled in the world. When Theodore Roosevelt visited here in 1903, he lamented, "The Grand Canyon fills me with awe. It is unparalleled and indescribable, and it is unique in this vast world. " Some people say that the only natural landscape in space that can be seen with the naked eye is the Colorado Grand Canyon.

The Colorado Grand Canyon is 443 kilometers long, with the deepest valley bottom 1600 kilometers and a width of 200~29000 meters. Native American Indians lived here as early as 5,000 years ago. The rocks in the Grand Canyon are a geological map, reflecting different geological periods. It changes different colors under the sunlight, and its magical colors attract the attention of countless tourists all over the world.