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Undid revision 1229995073 by Cwater1 (talk)As noted in the lede (and in the article), only part of the Grand Canyon is in Grand Canyon National Park. The details are a bit too complex to be included in the lead. |
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For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The [[Puebloan peoples|Pueblo people]] considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made [[pilgrimage]]s to it.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Douglas R. |last2=Lippert |first2=Dorothy |first3=Judy L. |last3=Brunson-Hadley |title=Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest |publisher=UNM Press |location=Albuquerque, NM |edition=reprint, illustrated |isbn=978-0826334619 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7VBVRMFJiAC&q=Ongtupqa&pg=PA11 |page=11 |year=2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517041227/https://books.google.com/books?id=T7VBVRMFJiAC&pg=PA11&dq=Ongtupqa |archive-date=May 17, 2016}}</ref> The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was [[García López de Cárdenas]] from Spain, who arrived in 1540.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/COLORADO_PLATEAU.html |title=History of the Colorado Plateau |encyclopedia=Utah History Encyclopedia |access-date=October 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109223648/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/COLORADO_PLATEAU.html |archive-date=January 9, 2013}}</ref>
==Geography==
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