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Colorado Plateau
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- United States
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- Arizona
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A map of the Colorado Plateau. The Four Corners region and the Colorado Plateau.
The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States. This plateau covers an area of 130,000 sq mi (340,000 km) within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southern and eastern Utah, northern Arizona, and a tiny fraction in the extreme southeast of Nevada. About 90% of the area is drained by the Colorado River and its main tributaries: the Green, San Juan, and Little Colorado. Most of the remainder of the plateau is drained by the Rio Grande and its tributaries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colorado Plateau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.