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 Arizona,
also known as the Grand Canyon State, is located
in the American Southwest. Admitted as the 48th
State of the Union in 1912, Arizona is home to
the Grand Canyon as well as a variety of terrain,
climates and cultures. To the west is California
and Nevada, to the north is Utah, to the east is
New Mexico, to the northeast is Colorado, and to
the south is the Mexican state of Sonora. It is
one of the Four Corners states.
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Visited Places
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National Parks
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Canyon de Chelly
(National Monument) |
Canyon de Chelly is unique
among National Park service units, as it
consists entirely of Navajo Tribal Trust Land
that remains home to the canyon community.
Access to the canyon floor is restricted, and
visitors are allowed to travel in the canyons
only when accompanied by a park ranger or an
authorized Navajo guide.
The only exception to this rule is the White
House Ruin Trail. Most park visitors arrive by
automobile and view Canyon de Chelly from the
rim, following both North Rim Drive and South
Rim Drive.
Ancient ruins and geologic structures are
visible, but in the distance, from turnoffs on
each of these routes. Tours of the canyon floor
can be booked at the visitor center.
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Grand Canyon
(National Park) |
The Grand Canyon is a
steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River
in the United States state of Arizona. It is
largely contained within the Grand Canyon
National Park — one of the first national parks
in the United States.
President Theodore Roosevelt was a major
proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon
area, and visited on numerous occasions to hunt
and enjoy the scenery.
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Montezuma Castle
(National Monument) |
Montezuma Castle National
Monument, located near
Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United
States, features well-preserved cliff dwellings.
They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian
Sinagua people around 1400 AD. Several Hopi
clans trace their roots to immigrants from the
Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members
periodically return to their former homes for
religious ceremonies. When European Americans
discovered them in the 1860s, they named them
for the Aztec emperor of Mexico Montezuma II,
due to mistaken beliefs that the emperor had
been connected to their construction.
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Tuzigoot (National
Monument) |
Tuzigoot National Monument,
near Cottonwood, Arizona, preserves a 2 to 3
story pueblo ruin on the summit of a limestone
and sandstone ridge just east of Clarkdale,
Arizona, 120 feet (36 m) above the Verde River
floodplain.
Tuzigoot is Apache for "crooked water", from
nearby Peck's lake, a cutoff meander of the
Verde River. Historically, it was built by the
Sinagua people between 1125 and 1400 CE.
Tuzigoot is the largest and best-preserved of
the many Sinagua pueblo ruins in the Verde
Valley.
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Antelope Canyon |
Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and
most-photographed slot canyon in the American
Southwest. It is located on Navajo land near
Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two
separate, photogenic slot canyon sections,
referred to individually as Upper Antelope
Canyon or The Crack; and Lower Antelope Canyon
or The Corkscrew.
The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse'
bighanilini, which means "the place where water
runs through rocks." Lower Antelope Canyon is
Hasdestwazi, or "spiral rock arches." Both are
located within the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo
Nation.
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Four
Corner
Monument |
The Four Corners Monument
marks the quadripoint in the Navajo Nation and
Ute Mountain Tribal Lands in the Southwest
United States where the states of
Arizona,
Colorado,
New
Mexico and Utah
meet — the only point in the United States where
the boundaries of four states intersect.
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Glen Canyon Dam |
Glen Canyon Dam is a dam on
the Colorado River at Page, Arizona, USA,
operated by the United States Bureau of
Reclamation. The purpose of the dam is to
provide water storage for the arid southwestern
United States, and to generate electricity for
the region's growing population. Damming the
river flooded Glen Canyon and created a large
reservoir called Lake Powell.
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Rainbow Bridge |
Rainbow Bridge National
Monument is administered by Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area, southern Utah, USA. Rainbow
Bridge is often described as the world's largest
natural bridge. The span of Rainbow Bridge is
275 feet (84 m), and at the top it is 42 feet
(13 m) thick and 33 feet (10 m) wide.
Rainbow Bridge is made from sandstone formed
during the end of the Triassic and the Jurassic
periods. Extreme fluctuations in climate during
the Triassic and Jurassic periods—the region was
alternately a sea and desert on par with the
Sahara—produced layers of sandstone with
different levels of hardness. By the end of the
Jurassic, the great sea returned to cover these
layers of sandstone and compressed them so
tightly that they would persist until the
present day.
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Photo Gallery
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Other Links
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The Official Website
of the State of Arizona
http://az.gov
Arizona - Grand Canyon State
http://www.arizonaguide.com
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