🕳️ Grandest canyon (volume)

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The Colorado River exposed nearly two billion years of Earth history in its walls. Its scale — length, depth and breadth together — makes it the classic 'largest' canyon, though not the single-deepest.

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This record belongs to our Canyons & Gorges collection, where every canyons & gorges in the world is catalogued.

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