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The Grand Canyon
is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado
River in the United States in the state of Arizona. 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. Source
The Grand Canyon Skywalk is a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge and tourist attraction in Arizona near the Colorado River on the edge of a side canyon in the Grand Canyon West area of the main canyon. USGS topographic maps show the elevation at the Skywalk's location as 4,770 ft and the elevation of the Colorado River in the base of the canyon as 1,160 ft, and they show that the height of the precisely vertical drop directly under the skywalk is between 500 ft and 800 ft. Commissioned and owned by the Hualapai Indian tribe. Source
