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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Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

The city sits on the Mogollon Rim, at the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau, which drops off as rapidly as it rises.

From Los Angeles Times

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

"It's really not an overstatement to say that this project would be one of — if not the — most harmful single industrial project in the history of industrial development on the Colorado Plateau," Toll concluded.

From Salon

The quarry is lodged on the side of a hill overlooking a broad wash on the Colorado Plateau.

From Los Angeles Times