Place 3 of 3Southwest, USA
Grand Canyon
The history
A mile deep, a couple of billion years of rock in the walls, cut by the Colorado — no photograph has ever managed the scale of it.
In brief
The Grand Canyon 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.
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