Canyon Diablo (canyon)

The Canyon Diablo ( German: Devil's Canyon ) is a canyon in Arizona, USA The canyon was dug plateau of a tributary of the Little Colorado River in the relatively soft sandstone of the Colorado, which is why it has very steep slopes. Its origin is located in the Coconino National Forest in the Sawmill Sawmill Springs and the Wash on the north edge of the Mogollon Rim, on the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau, from where he runs in a northeasterly direction. The low water levels in the springs and seeps quickly evaporates when the barrel reached the desert climate of the open plateau. Therefore, the Canyon takes today only sporadically water. It flows in Leupp on the Navajo Nation Reservation in the Little Colorado River.

The deepest and steepest section is crossed by Interstate 40 between Winona and Winslow, 50 km east of Flagstaff. The first highway bridge built in 1930 on what was then Route 66 led over the canyon is entered in the National Register of Historic Places. A little further north runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway on a steel viaduct over the gorge.

After the Canyon Diablo Canyon settlement is named. The Barringer Crater is located south of Interstate 40 just east of the canyon. The meteorite causing him bears the official name of Canyon Diablo meteorite