Squaw Canyon in Needles District, Canyonlands [OC][5312×2988]
Picture found by the Ditpub “Beautiful World” searcher.
Original was/is available from http://imgur.com/H10gwjx
It eventually makes sense to note that…
Squaw is an English language loan-word, used as a noun or adjective, derived from the eastern Algonquian morpheme meaning ‘woman’ that appears in numerous Algonquian languages and is variously transcribed in English as “squa”, “skwa”, “esqua”, “sqeh”, “skwe”, “que”, “kwa”, “ikwe”, “exkwew”, “xkwe”, and a number of other variants.
A gorge or canyon (cañon, old spelling occasionally still used) is a deep ravine between pairs of escarpments or cliffs and is the most often carved landscape by the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.
A needle is generally a thin, cylindrical object, often with a sharp point on the end.
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by local government.
Canyonlands National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab. It preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries.
Published by DitPub on 2016-02-23 8:20:43, under the category “Beautiful World”
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