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    attraction for older audiences. One of the most popular tourist attractions is the Grand Canyon National Park. The Grand Canyon is a mile-deep canyon and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world and also being one of the 7 wonders of the world. Another attraction is the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam is a testimony to the country’s ability to build monolithic things in the most adverse conditions. The Dam was actually built during the great depression so you could imagine the struggle to build it in that time. Now to everybody’s favorite topic “food”. I found that the food that most people talk about and is most known is the burrito. Burritos in Arizona are also known as “burros” by Arizonans. Another food that is only in Arizona but it’s one of the most popular is fry bread. Fry bread is considered “Gods snack” by most people. It’s also delicious with whatever you want to eat it with it like a honey bun except with powdered sugar. Other foods that the whole family can enjoy are chimichangas, cactus jelly, and mesquite honey with two restaurants that have claimed to have invented the foods. Now into some of the achievements that this state has gotten. One achievement that maybe the most popular is…

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    Have you ever been to Providence Canyon in Georgia? If you have never heard of it you may hear of it by its nickname, Georgia's Little Grand Canyon. Providence Canyon is obviously in Georgia, but it is in southwest Georgia. It is in Georgia's Coastal Plains region near the Alabama border. In the past the government has tried to make Providence Canyon a national park. Do you think Georgia's Little Grand Canyon should be changed into a national park? Providence Canyon is a state funded…

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    It’s an incredible experience. We had worked on the logistics for months, doing training hikes, planning flights, and reserving campsites, but that first view really made everything that went into the trip worth it. Things like that really can’t be captured in a picture. No matter how stunning a photograph of the Grand Canyon is, it’s nothing compared to standing on the edge of a hundred foot drop and just taking in the hugeness of one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Even my little…

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    Have you ever though about rather Providence Canyon should become a national Park??There is a lot of history behind the Canyon.The Grand Canyon is know as the Little Grand Canyon.The grand canyon is know from it's features.Say if an animal there you never saw before you would like to see and you would have the opportunity to see that once in a life time animal.The Canyon should be considered a National Park that would be so fun.It would be enjoying and a World class experience.Based on…

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    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the U.S. 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. View from the South Rim. The longstanding scientific consensus has been that the canyon was created by the Colorado River…

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    Grand Canyon Importance The Grand Canyon is a huge tourist attraction. Thousands of people visit every day and millions every year. The majority of them consider it one of the seven world wonders. It’s not hard to see why because the Grand Canyon is almost overwhelming in size. The Grand Canyon is a 277 mile long and 18 mile deep canyon in Arizona. The Grand Canyon has stood as one of nature’s most impressive sights for many years. The Grand Canyon has many important species of animals. There…

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    90% of all people who visit the Grand Canyon often visit the South Rim. While the north Rim is 250 miles away and is more remote. The Grand Canyon has many artificial lakes formed from the dams on the Salt and Colorado rivers. The park protects many animals and geological evidence from the rock layers. One quarter of the Grand Canyon is occupied by the Indians, the most in any state, by far. Some of the tribes consists of the Navajo, Apache, Hopi. The canyon has a few national monuments,…

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    Grand Canyon History

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    Did you know, that the rock found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon might be around 2 billion years old? Well the grand canyon is one of the best arrays of geological history in the world. It’s home to many different types of animals. It also hosts about 5 million tourists a year. Archaeologists are still not sure how it was formed. The Grand Canyon is considered one of the seven wonders of the world; it reveals millions of years of geological history. The Grand Canyon has a lot of…

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    The Grand Canyon, as it exists today, is an enormous, 277 mile-long trench carved through the landscape of Arizona by the Colorado River. It reached depths of up to 1 mile, and is as wide as 15 miles in some places. The Grand Canyon was created through the geographical changes brought about by the Laramide Orogeny, a seismic event that occurred approximately 70 million years ago and caused the formation of the Rocky Mountains. Later, around 18 million years ago, the Basin and Range Province was…

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    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in the United States. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, the Havasupai people and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. The Grand…

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