Mexico’s Copper Canyon (Travel Adventure) by Vivien Lougheed
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Overview: International adventurers are drawn to the isolated canyons of northwestern Mexico to build secluded campsites beside trickling streams where the golden moon glistens each evening on green and red gorges that are deeper and narrower than those of America’s Grand Canyon. These silent ravines are magnets to more than just adventurers. They attract cyclists, amateur geologists and anthropologists, landscape photographers, rafters and climbers who seem to reappear again and again, as dependably as the return of the full moon. Created some 25-35 million years ago after intense volcanic and pyroclastic activity, the canyons consist of six distinct gorges that splay out into 200 chasms, all formed by erosion and rivers that drain from the mountains into the Rio Fuerte. It, in turn, empties into the Sea of Cortez. Four of the chasms are over 1,000 feet (300 m) deeper than any in the Grand Canyon of Colorado. But to see these immense gorges and ravines that cover an area about the size of Texas, you must take time to go down into them on a burro or horse, on a raft or a bicycle if you dare, or even on your own feet. You must hire a guide and then spend endless days rambling and scrambling from one chasm into the next, each a new and different world from the last. The local indigenous group occupying the Copper Canyon are the Tarahumara or, more correctly, the Raramuri, as they call themselves. These semi-nomadic cliff dwellers, at one time shared most of the land in Chihuahua State with their close relatives, the Apaches
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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