Desert View Navajo Watch tower built by Mary Jane Colter in 1932 in the Grand Canyon in Arizona USA
Desert View Watchtower was built in 1932 and is one of Mary Jane Colter's best-known works. Situated at the South Rim, the tower sits on a 7,400 foot (2,256 m) promontory. It offers one of the few views of the bottom of the Canyon and the Colorado River. It is designed to mimic an Anasazi watchtower. The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona. The Grand Canyon National Park was one of the first national parks in the United States. The canyon was created by the Colorado River over a period of 6 million years, but research released in 2008 suggests a 17 million year time span. The canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles ( to 29 km) and attains a depth of more than a mile ( km). Nearly 2 billion years of the Earth's history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. The "canyon started from the west, then another formed from the east, and the two broke through and met as a single majestic rent in the earth some six million years ago. The merger apparently occurred where the river today, coming from the north, bends to the west, in the area known as the Kaibab Arch. During prehistory, the area was inhabited by Native Americans the Anasazi who built settlements within the canyon and its caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain in 1540. In 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran made the first recorded journey through the canyon on the Colorado River. Powell referred to the sedimentary rock units exposed in the canyon as "leaves in a great story book".
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Location: Desert View Navajo Watch tower built by Mary Jane Colter in 1932 in the Grand Canyon in Arizona USA
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