The Grand Canyon (Spanish: Gran Cañón) is a very wide and deep gorge in the northern US state of Arizona. Over millions of years, water from the Colorado River created this gorge in the landscape. This extreme erosion became possible because the area in which the gorge lies kept rising. The Colorado River erodes the material of the bottom of the canyon by about 16 cm every 1,000 years. The canyon is about 435 kilometres long and has a width that varies between 15 and 29 kilometres. The rock exposed by erosion is about 2 billion years old, according to measurements. The geological structure is part of the Grand Staircase.
Despite its great width, the other side of the canyon is easily visible from almost any point. This is due to the extremely low humidity in the desert-like area, which makes light absorption here extremely low.
The walls of the Grand Canyon are streaked reddish due to the different compositions of the layers in the succession. The red rock of the Grand Canyon is appreciated at its most beautiful just after sunrise and just before sunset. It is therefore often recommended to visit the Canyon around these times.
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