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Colorado Plateau

American  

noun

  1. a plateau in the SW United States, in N Arizona, NW New Mexico, S Utah, and SW Colorado: location of the Grand Canyon.


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The place where Gnatalie’s remains lie has a name: the Colorado Plateau.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

In Utah, he stays in an elegant property overlooking the Colorado Plateau where rooms go for more than $3,000 a night but finds a real sense of spirituality visiting his Navajo guide’s modest homestead.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Southwest—grew maize, beans, and squash in small, mobile, kin-based groups across the Colorado Plateau.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 28, 2021

Scott Winans, co-owner of Rapid Creek Cycles and board president of the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, had the original notion for the Plunge and led its design, approval and funding processes.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

A branch of that road ran through the Sonoran Desert and up onto the Colorado Plateau.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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