Grand Canyon National Park
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🇮🇹 United States of America📅 1979 Inscribed
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Carved out by the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon (nearly 1,500 m deep) is the most spectacular gorge in the world. Located in the state of Arizona, it cuts across the Grand Canyon National Park. Its horizontal strata retrace the geological history of the past 2 billion years. There are also prehistoric traces of human adaptation to a particularly harsh environment.
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One of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, the Grand Canyon is nearly 1,500 meters deep and up to 30 kilometers wide.
The Grand Canyon clearly reveals four eras of Earth's geological history (from Precambrian to Cenozoic), spanning two billion years, and contains diverse ecosystems within a small range of elevations.
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