CanyonDB
107 canyons and gorges worldwide with depth, length, type, and natural history. From the Grand Canyon to hidden slot canyons.
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Grand Canyon
The most famous canyon on Earth. Carved by the Colorado River over 5-6 million years. 1,85...
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
The deepest canyon in the world at 5,382 m. Also the longest at 504 km. The Yarlung Tsangp...
Antelope Canyon
The most photographed slot canyon in the world. Navajo name is Tsé bighánílíní (the place ...
Verdon Gorge
The Grand Canyon of Europe. The Verdon River has extraordinary turquoise-green color from ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
One of the deepest gorges in the world at 3,790 m. The Jinsha River thunders through it. N...
Fish River Canyon
The largest canyon in Africa. 160 km long, up to 27 km wide, and 550 m deep. The Fish Rive...
Colca Canyon
One of the deepest canyons in the world at 3,400 m. Twice the depth of the Grand Canyon. A...
Zion Canyon
The main feature of Zion National Park. Carved by the North Fork Virgin River. The Narrows...
River gorge (41)
Kali Gandaki Gorge
Possibly the deepest gorge in the world at 5,571 m from river to summit of Annapurna. The ...
Verdon Gorge
The Grand Canyon of Europe. The Verdon River has extraordinary turquoise-green color from ...
Vintgar Gorge
A gorge near Bled carved by the Radovna River. A wooden walkway suspended from the cliff w...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
One of the deepest gorges in the world at 3,790 m. The Jinsha River thunders through it. N...
Rio Grande Gorge
A gorge carved by the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico. The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge is 19...
Gorges du Verdon detail
The emerald green color comes from minerals in the glacial water. The Verdon was not fully...
Gorges du Tarn
A gorge carved by the Tarn River in southern France. 53 km long with cliffs up to 500 m. T...
Gorges de l Ardeche
A limestone gorge in southern France. The Pont dArc is a natural 60 m stone bridge. Canoei...
Samaria Gorge
The longest gorge in Europe at 16 km. Located in Crete in the White Mountains. Drops 1,200...
Vikos Gorge
The deepest gorge in the world relative to its width by Guinness Records. 1,350 m deep but...
Gola della Rossa
The Grand Canyon of the Marche region. The Rossa River carved through limestone. Part of t...
Todra Gorge
A narrow gorge in the Atlas Mountains. The canyon walls are 300 m tall but only 10 m apart...
Dades Gorge
A dramatic gorge in the Atlas Mountains. Famous for its switchback road through the canyon...
Wadi Mujib
The Grand Canyon of Jordan. The Mujib River carved it into sandstone. Lowest nature reserv...
Wadi Dana
A dramatic gorge in the Dana Nature Reserve. Drops 1,500 m from the plateau to the Rift Va...
Marsyangdi Gorge
A gorge carved by the Marsyangdi River in the Annapurna region. The Annapurna Circuit trek...
Sun Kosi Gorge
The Sun Kosi (Gold River) carves a deep gorge through the Mahabharat Range. One of the top...
Indus Gorge
One of the deepest gorges in the world. The Indus River cuts through the Karakoram and Him...
Brahmaputra Gorge
The Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra creates the deepest gorge on Earth. The river turns 180 de...
Katherine Gorge
A gorge system in Nitmiluk National Park. 13 separate gorges separated by rapids. The Kath...
Glen Helen Gorge
A permanent waterhole in the West MacDonnell Ranges. One of the few permanent water source...
Ellenbrae Gorge
A small but beautiful gorge in the Kimberley region. Part of the Gibb River Road journey. ...
Emanual Canyon
Part of the Carnarvon Gorge system in Queensland. The Carnarvon National Park has numerous...
Carnarvon Gorge
A spectacular gorge in Queensland. 30 km long with 600 m high sandstone walls. Contains Ab...
Genesee River Gorge
Called the Grand Canyon of the East. Located in Letchworth State Park in New York. Three m...
Linville Gorge
The Grand Canyon of the East (another claimant). Located in North Carolina. The Linville R...
Tallulah Gorge
A 300 m deep gorge in Georgia. Called the Niagara of the South for its waterfalls. A suspe...
Avon Gorge
The Clifton Suspension Bridge spans it, designed by Brunel. The gorge cuts through limesto...
Cheddar Gorge
The largest gorge in the UK. Cheddar cheese was first made here. Cheddar Man, the oldest c...
Pine Creek Gorge
Known as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. Carved by Pine Creek through the Allegheny Plat...
New River Gorge
A rugged gorge in West Virginia carved by the New River, despite its name one of the oldes...
Rhine Gorge
The Upper Middle Rhine Valley between Bingen and Koblenz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site sin...
Iron Gates
A chain of gorges where the Danube cuts between the Carpathian and Balkan mountains on the...
Ruinaulta
Often called the Swiss Grand Canyon, carved by the Anterior Rhine through debris of the Fl...
Saklikent Gorge
One of the deepest gorges in Turkey, near Fethiye in Mugla province. Its name means hidden...
Ihlara Valley
A gorge in Cappadocia carved by the Melendiz River through volcanic tuff from nearby Mount...
Taroko Gorge
A marble gorge carved by the Liwu River in eastern Taiwan, the centerpiece of Taroko Natio...
Three Gorges
The Qutang, Wu, and Xiling gorges on the Yangtze River between Chongqing and Yichang. Cele...
Olduvai Gorge
One of the most important paleoanthropological sites on Earth, on the edge of the Serenget...
Oribi Gorge
Carved by the Umzimkulwana River through sandstone in KwaZulu-Natal. Nearly 30 km of gorge...
Batoka Gorge
The zigzag chain of gorges below Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, along the Zambia and Zimba...
River canyon (38)
Grand Canyon
The most famous canyon on Earth. Carved by the Colorado River over 5-6 million years. 1,85...
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
The deepest canyon in the world at 5,382 m. Also the longest at 504 km. The Yarlung Tsangp...
Cotahuasi Canyon
The deepest canyon in Peru and one of the deepest in the world. Deeper than the Grand Cany...
Colca Canyon
One of the deepest canyons in the world at 3,400 m. Twice the depth of the Grand Canyon. A...
Fish River Canyon
The largest canyon in Africa. 160 km long, up to 27 km wide, and 550 m deep. The Fish Rive...
Blyde River Canyon
One of the largest green canyons in the world. 750 m deep with lush subtropical vegetation...
Zion Canyon
The main feature of Zion National Park. Carved by the North Fork Virgin River. The Narrows...
Tara River Canyon
The deepest river canyon in Europe at 1,300 m. The Tara River is the longest in Montenegro...
Charyn Canyon
Called the little brother of the Grand Canyon. 154 km long carved by the Charyn River. The...
Sumidero Canyon
A dramatic canyon in Chiapas. Walls rise up to 1,000 m. The Grijalva River flows through i...
Waimea Canyon
The Grand Canyon of the Pacific on Kauai. 1,067 m deep and 16 km long. Carved by the Waime...
Glen Canyon
Carved by the Colorado River. Mostly flooded by Lake Powell since 1963. The flooding was o...
Canyon de Chelly
A canyon on the Navajo Nation. People have lived here for 5,000 years. Spider Rock, a 230 ...
Paria Canyon
A spectacular canyon on the Utah-Arizona border. The Wave is nearby, a famous sandstone fo...
Fjaerargljufur
A beautiful canyon in south Iceland. The Fjaera River carved it through soft rock. Made fa...
Cataract Canyon
A canyon on the Colorado River in Utah. Contains some of the most dangerous rapids in Nort...
Black Canyon
A canyon on the Gunnison River in Colorado. The darkest and most foreboding canyon walls i...
San Juan River Canyon
A canyon on the San Juan River in Utah. The river has the steepest gradient of any major C...
Tara Canyon detail
The Durdevica Tara Bridge is 154 m high and was blown up in WWII to stop Italian advance, ...
Canyon del Pato
The Duck Canyon on the Santa River. 1,000 m deep with near-vertical walls. A road with 35 ...
Maranon Canyon
The Grand Canyon of South America. The Maranon River, a major Amazon tributary, carved it....
Tis Issat (Blue Nile Gorge)
The Grand Canyon of Africa. The Blue Nile carved it up to 1,500 m deep. The Blue Nile Fall...
Omo River Canyon
A deep canyon carved by the Omo River. The Omo Valley is home to diverse indigenous tribes...
Lukuga Canyon
A canyon carved by a tributary of the Congo River. Part of the vast Congo River system. Th...
Baturite Canyon
A canyon in the Baturite mountains of Ceara state. Northeastern Brazil has surprising cany...
Kolyma Canyon
A deep canyon carved by the Kolyma River in far eastern Siberia. The Kolyma is one of the ...
Sayan Canyon
A canyon carved by the Yenisei River through the Sayan Mountains. The Yenisei is one of th...
Chulym Canyon
A canyon on the Chulym River, a tributary of the Ob. Siberia has numerous deep river canyo...
Provo Canyon
A canyon on the Provo River in Utah. Robert Redfords Sundance Resort is here. The canyon c...
Nine Mile Canyon
Called the worlds longest art gallery. Over 10,000 petroglyphs spanning 8,000 years. Fremo...
Havasu Canyon
A side canyon of the Grand Canyon. The Havasupai people have lived here for 800+ years. Ha...
Palo Duro Canyon
The second largest canyon in the USA. Called the Grand Canyon of Texas. 193 km long and up...
Hells Canyon
The deepest river gorge in North America at 2,436 m, deeper than the Grand Canyon. Carved ...
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
A colorful canyon carved by the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. Its walls ...
Royal Gorge
A narrow granite gorge carved by the Arkansas River near Canon City, Colorado. Up to 380 m...
Fraser Canyon
A long canyon carved by the Fraser River through the mountains of British Columbia. At Hel...
Chicamocha Canyon
A huge canyon carved by the Chicamocha River in the department of Santander. Reaches depth...
Studlagil Canyon
A canyon in eastern Iceland lined with spectacular hexagonal basalt columns. It was little...
Canyon system (4)
Copper Canyon
A system of 6 canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental. Larger and deeper than the Grand Can...
Canyonlands
A national park in Utah with vast canyon systems. The Colorado and Green Rivers carved it....
Chapada dos Veadeiros
A national park in Goias, Brazil, with numerous canyons and waterfalls. A UNESCO World Her...
Chapada dos Guimaraes
A national park in Mato Grosso with dramatic canyons. The town sits on the edge of a massi...
Slot canyon (4)
Antelope Canyon
The most photographed slot canyon in the world. Navajo name is Tsé bighánílíní (the place ...
Kings Canyon
Part of Watarrka National Park in the Northern Territory. The Rim Walk is a 6 km circuit o...
Echidna Chasm
A narrow slot canyon in the Bungle Bungle Range. Only 1 m wide at its narrowest. The walls...
Buckskin Gulch
The longest continuous slot canyon in the USA. Walls tower up to 150 m. Flash floods are t...
Limestone canyon (3)
Tsingy de Bemaraha
A UNESCO World Heritage Site of razor-sharp limestone pinnacles. The name means where one ...
Maligne Canyon
A narrow limestone slot in Jasper National Park, Alberta. In places over 50 m deep but onl...
Gordale Scar
A limestone ravine near Malham in the Yorkshire Dales. Overhanging cliffs over 100 m high ...