Executive summary by darmansjah
The Wave is on the
slopes of the Coyote Buttes, which are in turn located in the Paria
Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.
The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado
Plateau Province, is a physiographic
region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners
region of the southwestern United States. The province covers an area of
337,000 km2 (130,000 mi2) within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico,
southern and eastern Utah, and northern Arizona. About 90% of the area is
drained by the Colorado River and its main
tributaries: the Green, San Juan, and Little Colorado.
The Colorado Plateau is largely made up of high desert, with
scattered areas of forests. In the southwest corner of the Colorado Plateau
lies the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.
Much of the Plateau's landscape is related, in both appearance and geologic
history, to the Grand Canyon. The nickname "Red
Rock Country" suggests the brightly colored rock left bare to the
view by dryness and erosion. Domes, hoodoos, fins, reefs, goblins, river
narrows, natural bridges, and slot canyons are only some of the additional
features typical of the Plateau.
The Colorado Plateau has the greatest concentration of U.S.
National Park Service (NPS) units in the country. Among its ten National Parks
are Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef,
Canyonlands, Arches, Mesa Verde, and Petrified Forest. Among its 17
National Monuments are Dinosaur, Hovenweep, Wupatki,
Sunset Crater Volcano, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Natural Bridges, Canyons of
the Ancients, and Colorado.
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