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Bryce Canyon

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Bryce Canyon 

one of the most picturesque canyons of the Colorado Plateau, in the USA. The canyon coincides with a fault line. It was cut into a thickness of limestone and sandstone of the Eocene epoch. It reaches depths of 250 m. A large area (more than 14,000 hectares) surrounding Bryce Canyon was designated a national park in 1928.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "For an area as economically depressed as Garfield County, tourism is the industry and 70 percent of that industry comes from international tourists," says Lance Syrett, general manager of Best Western Ruby's Inn and Bryce View Lodge, situated at the gateway to Bryce Canyon National Park.
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