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The Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful places of


the USA it is in Arizona State

The Grand Canyon is a mile-deep gorge in northern Arizona.


Scientists estimate the canyon may have formed 5 to 6
million years ago when the Colorado River began to cut a
channel through layers of rock. Humans have inhabited the
area in and around the canyon since the last Ice Age. The
first Europeans to reach the Grand Canyon were Spanish
explorers in the 1540s. President Benjamin Harrison first
protected the Grand Canyon in 1893 as a forest reserve, and
it became an official United States National Park in 1919.

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