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The Grand Canyon ( Hopi: Ongtupqa; , Navajo: Tsékooh Hatsoh, Spanish: Gran Cañón) 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 Canyon is long, up to wide and attains a depth of over a mile . Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
Grand Canyon is a 1991 American drama film directed and produced by Lawrence Kasdan, and written by Kasdan with his wife Meg. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film is about random events affecting a selection of diverse characters, the film explores the race- and class-imposed chasms which separate members of the same community. Grand Canyon was advertised as " The Big Chill for the '90s", in reference to an earlier Kasdan film.
Grand Canyon may refer to:
- The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, United States (the best-known "Grand Canyon")
- Grand Canyon National Park, surrounding the canyon in Arizona
- Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, a community within the national park
Grand Canyon may also refer to:
The Grand Canyon ( Hebrew: גרנד קניון, literally "Grand Mall," a play on words with the actual Grand Canyon) is the largest shopping mall in northern Israel, located in the northern city of Haifa.
It features 220 stores, including of which approximately 80% are chain stores. Inside the mall there is also a 4000 m spa, and a children's amusement park which closed in April 2014.
The mall opens half an hour after sun-down on Saturday out of respect for the Jewish Sabbath.
Grand Canyon is a 1958 American short documentary film directed by James Algar and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was shown as a supplement during Sleeping Beauty's initial run, and it won an Academy Award at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959 for Best Short Subject (Live Action). It is also included as a bonus feature on the 1997 laserdisc, 2003 DVD, and 2008 DVD & Blu-ray releases of Sleeping Beauty.
According to the opening credits, Grand Canyon is "a pictorial interpretation of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite", much as the animated segments in Fantasia are pictorial representations of music, and the film is strongly related to its soundtrack.
The film has no live actors, no dialogue, and no narration, only musical accompaniment.
Usage examples of "grand canyon".
While you're hiding back up the canyon I can keep in touch with you if need be, at least let you know when we're ready to leave the Grand Canyon and make it safe for you to show your face outside again.
We haven't found any signs of life yet, living or fossils, but maybe conditions down in the Grand Canyon will be more conducive.
After living four months in a work camp at the very bottom of the Grand Canyon, Jake had learned his way around the place a little bit, but he still hadn't got used to it in his mind.
They were to report to Keogh as soon as they reached El Tovar hotel, which was situated just a few yards from the South Rim, inside Grand Canyon National Park.
A land line call to his buddy Roy, W6AMD, brought the disturbing news that last Thursday night, at a time when K6ATX was rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, the Condor had responded to net control's check-in roll call with his same sweet-toned signal--but with a faultiness of keymanship that bore scant resemblance to his skilled brasspounding of former years.
As you can see, it contains dozens of canyon systems that all eventually drain into Lake Powell and the Grand Canyon, to the south and east.
You know the people who first saw the Grand Canyon thought it was ugly as hell because it wasn't like the Alps.