By Chloe Rivera

Location

• Region- Southwest

• State-Arizona

• Capital-Phoenix

• Longitude-111.5095°W

• Latitude-33.8948°N

Landforms

• The Grand canyon has steep cliffs wining path and high peeks

• It is about 277 miles long and up to 18 miles wide in some places

• It is one mile deep from the edge of the floor

• A canyon is a deep valley with steep walls on both sides formed by erosion

Culture

• The first people who lived in the Grand canyon was a tribe of Native Americans called Archaic

• The person who came next was a European explorer named Garcia Lopez de Cardenas

• In 1869 a geologist named John Wesley Powell traveled through the canyon with a team of men

Waterways

• It is hard to believe that the Colorado River made the Grand Canyon

• About six million years ago the Colorado River began to cut through the different layers of the earth’s rock.

• The Colorado River runs through the lowest parts of the canyon at 1,450 miles long

Rocks and Minerals

• There are many different kinds of rocks and minerals in the Grand Canyon

• Limestone is a kind of rock that is formed underwater

• The oldest rocks found in the canyon is Granite and Schist

• Limestone, Shale, and Sandstone can all be found in the Grand Canyon