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10 AMAZING Grand Canyon Facts! From it’s unknown history to it’s amazing beauty…stay tuned to number 1 to find out the 10 most amazing things about the Grand Canyon!
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from its unknown history to its amazing
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beauty stay tuned a number one to find
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out the ten most amazing things about
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the Grand Canyon
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number ten it’s old but we don’t know
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how old one of the most amazing things
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about the Grand Canyon is that it’s a
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natural landmark meaning that it was
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literally nature who helped carved it
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out and shape it into the tourist
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attraction and landmark we know today
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and for the most part we know how it was
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formed
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it was the Colorado River that slowly
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but surely carved out this amazing
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Canyon and the end result is what we see
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now but here’s the question that no one
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is really able to answer when exactly
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was it made for a long time it was
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stated that the Grand Canyon is about
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six million years old which means it
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preceded humanity by a very large
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portion of time but there are some
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scientists who actually put that number
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in question a study done in 2012 has the
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Grand Canyon being closer to 70 million
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years old
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which is a much longer period of
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existence and not only do they say that
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but they think that the Grand Canyon
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originally started out as a series of
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canyons that were eventually joined
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together by the river slowly carving the
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rest of it out granted we will never
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truly know how long it took to form or
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in a time machine but it’s curious to
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think about that’s for sure
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number nine bigger than a US state one
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of the things that really blows the
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minds of people who see the Grand Canyon
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is that it’s huge and again it was made
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by Nature which means that nature was
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able to make something this huge in epic
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with nothing but time and effort but
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when you calculate the actual size of
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the Grand Canyon you’ll find that it’s
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1904 square miles in size which is truly
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massive but if you start looking at the
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states that comprise the u.s. you’ll
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find that it’s quite a bit bigger than
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the smallest state in the country Rhode
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Island that’s right the Grand Canyon is
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bigger than Rhode Island which is only
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about 1212 square miles part of the
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reason for the Grand Canyon size is
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because of its depth and length it could
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go a mile deep into the earth of places
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and it’s ten miles across in other areas
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it makes you wonder doesn’t it with its
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size should the Grand Canyon be its own
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state and probably not give
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the living conditions people would have
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to get used to number eight it has its
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own weather system before we talk about
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the amazing weather diversity at the
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Grand Canyon take a moment to like this
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video and join the zero to hero
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community by using the buttons below I
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want you to think about a place where
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you live where it seems like the weather
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can shift on a dime and if that does
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happen it’s often because of the weather
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systems that converge on an area in such
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a way that it causes things like going
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from rain to shine and back to rain or
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having snow one minute and having it
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melt by the time the day is over because
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of how and where the Grand Canyon is
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constructed it is able to sustain its
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own unique weather system this is
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because of its elevation since the Grand
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Canyon can be as high as 8,000 feet in
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elevation and is diva’s a mile into the
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earth the temperature wind and more will
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grow or shrink depending on your
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location within the place for example if
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you go from the top of the Grand Canyon
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to the bottom of it you’ll feel yourself
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getting hotter as you descend by about
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five and a half degrees for every
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thousand feet to be exact this also
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means that the weather conditions like
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rain or shine will depend on where you
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are in the canyon as well so if you
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decide to take a trip there which I
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highly recommend prepare for whatever
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may blow your way
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number seven how low can you go
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technically speaking the Grand Canyon
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reaches into the earth about 6,000 feet
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in certain places making it a pretty
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deep canyon you might even think this is
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the deepest canyon in the world but it’s
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not it’s not even close to be honest
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that honor goes to the Yarlung Tsangpo
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Gorge in Tibet that particular Canyon
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can reach an incredible depth of
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seventeen thousand five hundred and
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sixty-seven feet down in certain places
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which makes it well double and almost
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triple the depth of what the Grand
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Canyon can do there’s also the length
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factor the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge is one
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that is nearly three times the size of
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the Grand Canyon in terms of length for
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its 30 miles longer than the Grand
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Canyon that is a really big Canyon
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don’t get me wrong there’s no doubt in
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anyone’s mind that the Grand Canyon is
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very impressive in its own right but
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that doesn’t mean that the canyon is the
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biggest in the world as we’ve proven
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here
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number six lots of caves given how the
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Grand Canyon was formed via water and
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erosion over a long period of time there
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was never any doubt that certain caves
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and passageways were cut out from the
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earth by this overtime but what might
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surprise you is the sheer amount of them
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that are in the Grand Canyon
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hit him within the Grand Canyon are an
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estimated 1,000 caves of those 335 have
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been recorded very few have been mapped
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or inventoried most have developed in
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the limestone of the red wall and Wahb
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formations although some are known to
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exist in other formations some caves are
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well known and over the years have been
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frequent and often by visitors such as
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the cave of the domes on Horseshoe Mesa
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this is fascinating for many reasons not
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the least of which is that many of these
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caves haven’t been properly explored
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which means there could be some very
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interesting discoveries just waiting to
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happen there have already been findings
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of fossils from ancient Ice Age animals
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and fauna and there are some caves that
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hosts all kinds of animals so imagine
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how much more we would know about the
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Grand Canyon’s past if we just explored
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the caves but there’s one thing you
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aren’t likely to find in them number
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five dinosaur bones you know the phrase
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timing is everything
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well in the case of the Grand Canyon
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that’s most definitely the case in one
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particular instance I mentioned in the
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last entry that there have been fossils
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found of certain Ice Age plants and
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creatures but not found at all our
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dinosaur bones this is odd at first
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because dinosaur bones have been found
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all over the planet and there have been
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some incredible finds within a short
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distance from the Grand Canyon itself
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and given the composition of the Grand
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Canyon which has many materials which
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would easily contain dinosaur bones if
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given the chance you would think that
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there would be dinosaur bones there but
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there aren’t at all and there’s a very
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simple and logical reason as to why
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while the canyon itself may not have
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been carved in total six to 17 million
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years ago at best guess the
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the canyon was formed in was around for
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billions of years before that and
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because the dinosaurs lived on the earth
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in the middle of that period that means
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that the canyon wasn’t around to hold
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the bones or be an ecosystem for the
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dinosaurs to live in well there’s a
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chance that the dinosaurs could have
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lived in the area before the canyon was
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formed there’s honestly no proof of that
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and we know that dinosaurs didn’t live
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all over the world just in a majority of
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places on it number four there aren’t a
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lot of fish in the rivers looking at the
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Grand Canyon as a whole you’re gonna see
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some unique and diverse wildlife you’d
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have to given the condition of which the
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animals have to live in for example the
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heat elevation lack of certain greenery
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and so on and so forth
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but eventually when you come to the
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rivers you’ll notice something very
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interesting there aren’t a lot of fish
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in them one of the big reasons for this
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is that the Colorado River which created
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the canyon is very salty it’s under
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flood and it has a great degree of
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temperature difference so as such there
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are only eight species of fish in the
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waters of the Grand Canyon and six of
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them can only be found in the Colorado
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River section number three the rock
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squirrel so what the Grand Canyon
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doesn’t have the most diverse population
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of animals ever it does have something
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you need to look out for but the one you
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need to look out for the most is the
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rock squirrel now I’m not joking you
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need to be careful of the squirrels
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every year about twelve people are
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bitten by rock schools why because they
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get too close to the squirrels because
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they think they’re cute regular
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squirrels and they try to feed them and
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thus they get bit to try and prevent
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this there are signs telling you not to
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feed the squirrels and so you’ve been
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warned number two a gateway to the
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beyond it’s not surprising when a person
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or tribe places a certain significance
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on a landmark and the Grand Canyon is no
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exception the local Hopi Tribe is one
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that believes that the Grand Canyon
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isn’t just a landmark made by nature but
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a place that is instrumental in the
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journey to the beyond according to them
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when you pass on from this life your
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spirit will start to walk the canyon
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you’ll head west until you reach a place
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of emergence locate
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we’re the Colorado and Little Colorado
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rivers meet and it is there that you’ll
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go into the afterlife
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number one it’s one of the most visited
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parks in the country okay so this one
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may not be the biggest surprise on earth
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but it’s one that needs to be said the
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Grand Canyon is a marvel to behold up
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close and that’s why it’s one of the
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most popular parks in all of the United
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States around six million people a year
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visit the park which is a pretty big
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number when you think about it
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strangely though the only part that
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beats it in terms of annual visitors are
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the Great Smoky Mountains that are in
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North Carolina and Tennessee another
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thing to note is that this amount of
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visitors was not always typical of the
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Grand Canyon
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oh no when the park open all the way
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back in 1919 the visitor numbers were
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about nineteen thousand per year granted
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that was still in the relatively early
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days of transportation in the US but
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still that’s pretty low but once things
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got rolling and facilities and
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transportation got better people started
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to flock to the Grand Canyon and that
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hasn’t changed since have you ever been
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to the Grand Canyon tell us about your
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experience in the comments below and
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take care
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