The Grand Canyon

-The Grand Canyon Grand Canyon Grand Canyon is a world-famous natural wonder, located in northwestern Arizona Kaibab Plateau west, with a total area of ​​2724.7 square kilometers. Because the Colorado River flow through them, also known as the Grand Canyon, which is one of the natural heritage is protected by UNESCO elected. Grand Canyon in 1540 by an expedition to find. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson turned the Grand Canyon area, "Grand Canyon National Park" (Grand Canyon National Park). Only from a height overlooking the Grand Canyon, it is possible to enjoy a complete fracture of this earth. Flying over one hundred rapids of the Colorado River flows from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the river is a giant, 500 million years ago, with its genius imagination and extraordinary willpower, cutting the plateau, restructuring rivers and mountains, through rock stone quarry, subversion and space, wrote this about 443 km, with an average width of 16 km and a depth of 1.6 kilometers legendary Grand Canyon. Interestingly, the Indians living at the bottom of this Grand Canyon, their vocabulary is not the Grand Canyon of the word, according to their way of thinking will create a new word, a new word which happens to Grand Canyon made the most vivid description : "backwards long hill."