List of canyons

Further information: Canyon

This list of canyons and gorges includes both land and submarine canyons with the land canyons being sorted by continent and then by country.

Africa

• 
  Blyde River Canyon, South Africa
• 
  Fish River Canyon, Namibia
• 
  Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

South Africa

• Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
• Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal (The word Kloof means 'gorge' in Afrikaans ^{[ citation needed ]})
• Komati Gorge
• Lanner Gorge
• Oribi Gorge, KwaZulu-Natal

Other countries

• Lesotho - Senqu River Canyon
• Lesotho - Maletsunyane River Gorge
• Lesotho - Makhaleng River Canyon
• Cameroon- Gorges de Kola
• Egypt- Arada Canyon
• Ethiopia- Blue Nile Gorge
• Madagascar- Isalo Canyon
• Mali— Talari Gorges
• Morocco- Todgha Gorge
• Namibia— Fish River Canyon
• Republic of Congo- Gorges of Diosso
• Tanzania— Olduvai Gorge
• Tunisia— Mides Canyon

Americas

• 
  Itaimbezinho Canyon, Brazil
• 
  Ouimet Canyon, Canada
• 
  Sumidero Canyon, Mexico
• 
  Grand Canyon, USA

Argentina

• Atuel Canyon, Mendoza Province
• Pinturas River Canyon, Santa Cruz Province
• Talampaya River Canyon ^[1]

Brazil

• Guartelá Canyon, Paraná
• Itaimbezinho, Aparados da Serra National Park, Rio Grande do Sul
• Fortaleza Canyon, Aparados da Serra National Park, Rio Grande do Sul

Canada

• Agawa Canyon, Ontario
• Barron River (Ontario)
• Beggerlay Canyon, British Columbia
• Big Canyon, British Columbia
• Big Creek Canyon, British Columbia
• Bull Canyon, British Columbia
• Coaticook Gorge, Quebec
• Cottonwood Canyon, British Columbia
• Coquihalla Canyon, British Columbia
• Deserters Canyon, British Columbia
• Driftwood Canyon, British Columbia
• Eakin Creek Canyon, British Columbia
• Eaton Canyon, Quebec
• Farwell Canyon, British Columbia
• Fort George Canyon, British Columbia
• Fraser Canyon, British Columbia
• French Bar Canyon, British Columbia
• Giscome Canyon, British Columbia
• Grand Canyon of the Stikine, British Columbia
• Great Canyon (Homathko River), British Columbia
• The Green Bowl, British Columbia
• Hagwilget Canyon, British Columbia
• Helmcken Canyon, British Columbia
• Horseshoe Canyon, Alberta
• Horsethief Canyon, Alberta
• Kitselas Canyon, British Columbia
• Klinaklini Canyon, British Columbia
• Klootch Canyon, British Columbia
• Klootchman Canyon, British Columbia
• Lava Canyon, British Columbia
• Maligne Canyon, Alberta
• Marble Canyon, British Columbia
• Marie Canyon, British Columbia
• Mistaya Canyon, Alberta
• Nanaimo River Canyon, British Columbia
• Niagara Gorge, Ontario
• Ouimet Canyon, Ontario
• Painted Chasm, British Columbia
• Canyon Sainte-Anne, Quebec
• Waddington Canyon, British Columbia

Chile

• Cajón del Maipo, Santiago Metropolitan Region
• Caspana, El Loa Province

Colombia

• Chicamocha Canyon, Santander
• Saturban canyon, Santander

Mexico

• Barranca de Oblatos, Jalisco

• Copper Canyon, Chihuahua
• Huasteca Canyon, Monterrey
• Sumidero Canyon, Chiapas

Peru

• Colca Canyon, Arequipa
• Cotahuasi Canyon, Arequipa

United States

• 
  Antelope Canyon, Arizona
• 
  Snake River Canyon, Idaho
• 
  Bighorn Canyon, Montana and Wyoming
• 
  Green River Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

For a more complete list of Utah canyons, see List of canyons and gorges in Utah.

• Antelope Canyon, Arizona
• Ausable Chasm, New York
• Bad Rock Canyon, Montana
• Bad Branch Gorge, Kentucky
• Blackhand Gorge, Ohio
• Bighorn Canyon, Montana and Wyoming
• Big South Fork of the Cumberland River gorge, Kentucky and Tennessee
• Big Thompson River Canyon, Colorado
• Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado
• Blackwater Canyon, West Virginia
• Bluejohn Canyon, Utah—site of Aron Ralston's accident
• Breaks Canyon, Kentucky and Virginia
• Buckskin Gulch, Utah—possibly the longest, deepest slot canyon in the world at over 13 mi (21 km); a tributary of the Paria River
• Cane Creek Canyon, Alabama
• Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
• Canyonlands National Park, canyons of the Colorado River and its main tributary the Green River, Utah
• Canyons of the Escalante, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah
• Cataract Canyon, Utah
• Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
• Cheat Canyon, West Virginia
• Chesterfield Gorge, Massachusetts ^[2]
• Chitistone Canyon, Alaska
• Cloudland Canyon, Georgia
• Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon
• Desolation Canyon, Utah
• Dismals Canyon, Alabama
• Echo Canyon, Nevada
• Fall Brook Gorge, New York
• Flaming Gorge, Utah and Wyoming
• Flume Gorge, New Hampshire
• Franklin Gorge, West Virginia
• Fremont River Canyon, Utah
• Gates of Lodore, Colorado
• Genesee River Gorge, New York
• Glen Canyon, Utah and Arizona
• Glenwood Canyon, Colorado
• Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
• Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, Yosemite National Park, California
• Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Grand Coulee, Washington
• Gulf Hagas, Maine
• Hells Canyon, Idaho, Oregon and Washington
• Horseshoe Canyon, Utah
• James River Gorge, Virginia
• Kaaterskill Clove, New York
• Kanuti Canyon, Alaska
• Kern Canyon, California
• Kings Canyon, California
• Kolob Canyons, Zion National Park, Utah
• Keystone Canyon, Alaska
• Lehigh River Gorge, Pennsylvania
• Linville Gorge, North Carolina
• Little River Canyon, Alabama
• Logan Canyon, Utah
• Marble Canyon, Arizona
• Mather Gorge, Maryland and Virginia
• Mississippi Gorge, Minnesota
• Mianus River Gorge, New York
• Moses Coulee, Washington
• McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
• New River Gorge, West Virginia
• Neversink Gorge, New York
• Niagara Gorge, New York
• Nine Mile Canyon, Utah
• Noatak Canyon, Alaska
• Palo Duro Canyon, Texas
• Paria River Canyon, southern Utah into northern Arizona
• Pine Creek Gorge, Pennsylvania
• Providence Canyon, Georgia
• Provo Canyon, Utah
• Quartermaster Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona ^[3]
• Quechee Gorge, Vermont
• Red River Gorge, Kentucky
• Rio Grande Gorge, New Mexico
• Ripogenus Gorge, Maine
• Royal Gorge, Colorado
• Ruby Canyon, Colorado and Utah
• Sabino Canyon, Arizona
• Saint Christopher's Canyon, Aibonito and Barranquitas, Puerto Rico
• Salt River Canyon, Arizona
• San Rafael River Gorge, Utah
• Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas (also in Big Bend N.P.: Boquillas and Mariscal Canyons)
• Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota
• Smoke Hole Canyon, West Virginia
• Tallulah Gorge, Georgia
• Tennessee River Gorge, Tennessee into Alabama
• The Trough, West Virginia
• Turnback Canyon, Alaska
• Titus Canyon, Death Valley, California (also in Death Valley: Golden, Mosaic and Natural Bridge Canyons)
• Virgin River Gorge, Arizona and Utah
• Waimea Canyon, Hawaii
• Walnut Canyon, Arizona
• Westwater Canyon, Utah
• Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Winner Creek Gorge, Alaska
• Wintergreen Gorge, Pennsylvania
• Yakima River Canyon, Washington
• Zion Canyon, Utah

Other countries

• Bolivia— Grand Canyon of Torotoro, Torotoro, Potosi Department
• Nicaragua— Somoto Canyon, Somoto, Madriz

Asia

• 
  One of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze river, China
• 
  Siq, Jordan
• 
  Sharyn Canyon, Kazakhstan
• 
  Kali Gandaki Gorge, Nepal
• 
  Indus River Gorge, Pakistan

China

• Huguan Taihang Grand Canyon, Shanxi
• Longtan Grand Canyon, Hebei
• Norton Couloir, Tibet
• Qutang Gorge, Hubei
• Red Stone Gorge, Henan
• Taihangshan Gorge, Shanxi

• Three Gorges, Chongqing
• Three Parallel Rivers, Yunnan
• Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan
• Wu Gorge, Hubei
• Xiling Gorge, Hubei
• Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, Tibet Autonomous Region
• Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, Tibet Autonomous Region

Nepal

• Chovar Gorge, Kathmandu
• Kali Gandaki Gorge, Gandaki

India

• Gandikota, Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh
• Garadia Mahadev, Kota district, Rajasthan
• Idukki, Western Ghats, Kerala
• Raneh Falls, Chatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh
• Satkosia Tiger Reserve, Angul district, Odisha
• Dayangmukh, Dima Hasao, Assam
• Assi Ganga, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand
• Shatadru, Kufri, Himachal Pradesh

Philippines

• Bued Gorge, Benguet
• Montalban Gorge, Central Luzon

Other countries

• Indonesia— Cukang Taneuh, Pangandaran, Brown Canyon in Semarang
• Jordan— Siq, Petra
• Kazakhstan— Sharyn Canyon
• Kyrgyz Republic—Ala Archa gorge of Ala Archa National Park
• Oman— Wadi Ghul
• Pakistan— Indus River Gorge through the Himalaya; Soan River gorge
• Taiwan—Taroko Gorge of Taroko National Park

Europe

• 
  Cheddar Gorge, England
• 
  Gorges du Tarn, France
• 
  Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, Iceland
• 
  Bicaz Gorge, Romania
• 
  Aare Gorge, Switzerland

Albania

• Osum Gorge
• Këlcyrë Gorge

Austria

• Leutasch Gorge, Tyrol
• Liechtensteinklamm, Salzburg
• Rappenloch Gorge, Vorarlberg

France

• Ardèche Gorges, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
• Daluis Gorge, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
• Gorges du Tarn, Occitanie
• Verdon Gorge, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Georgia

• Aragvi River Gorge
• Pankisi Gorge
• Okaze canyon
• Martvili canyon

Germany

• Mensinger Ravine, Northrhine-Westphalia
• Rhine Gorge, Rhineland-Palatine and Hesse
• Spetzgarter Gorge, Baden-Württemberg
• Wutach Gorge, Baden-Württemberg

Greece

• Agia Eirini Gorge, Crete
• Ha Gorge, Crete
• Imbros Gorge, Crete
• Kotsifos Gorge, Crete
• Kourtaliotiko Gorge, Crete
• Richtis Gorge, Crete
• Sarakina Gorge, Crete
• Samaria Gorge, Crete
• Vikos Gorge, Vikos–Aoös National Park

Ireland

• Gap of Dunloe, County Kerry
• Mizen Head, County Cork
• The Scalp, County Dublin ^[4]

Italy

• Bletterbach, South Tyrol
• Gorropu, Sardinia

Kosovo

• Rugova Canyon

Montenegro

• Morača Canyon
• Tara River Canyon
• Piva Canyon

Norway

• Allmannajuvet Canyon, Rogaland
• Jutulhogget Canyon, Hedmark
• Jutulhogget Canyon, Oppland
• Mågålaupet Gorge, Sør-Trøndelag
• Sautso Canyon, Finnmark

Russia

Sulak Canyon in Dagestan

• Sulak Canyon, Dagestan

Switzerland

• Aare Gorge, Bern
• Küsnachter Tobel, Zürich
• Rofla Gorge, Grisons
• Ruinaulta, Grisons
• Schöllenen Gorge, Uri
• Tamina Gorge, St. Gallen
• Viamala, Grisons

Turkey

For a more complete list of canyons in Turkey, see List of canyons and gorges in Turkey.

• Boğazpınar Canyon, Mersin Province
• Harmanköy Canyon, Bilecik
• Ulubey Canyon, Uşak
• Valla Canyon, Küre, Kastamonu

United Kingdom

• 
  Avon Gorge, Bristol, England
• 
  Corrieshalloch Gorge, Ross-shire, Scotland
• 
  Gordale Scar, Yorkshire, England
• 
  Winnats Pass, Derbyshire, England

England Avon Gorge, in Bristol, Somerset and Gloucestershire Burrington Combe, Somerset Cauldron Snout, County Durham [5] Cheddar Gorge, Somerset Chee Dale, Derbyshire Cliviger Gorge, Lancashire Cresswell Crags, Nottinghamshire Deep Dale, Derbyshire Ebbor Gorge, Somerset Gordale Scar, Yorkshire [6] Harehope Canyon, Northumberland Hen Hole, Northumberland High Cup Gill, Westmorland How Stean Gorge, Yorkshire Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire Lud's Church, Staffordshire Piers Gill, Cumberland Sleightholme Beck Gorge, Yorkshire [7] Staward Gorge, Northumberland Trollers Gill, Yorkshire Winnats Pass, Derbyshire

Scotland Ailnack Gorge, Banffshire [8] Alva Glen, Clackmannanshire Avon Gorge, Stirlingshire and West Lothian Black Rock Gorge, Ross-shire Burn o' Vat, Aberdeenshire Corrieshalloch Gorge, Ross-shire [8] Craighall Gorge, Perthshire Crichope Linn, Dumfriesshire Daal of Lumbister, Shetland [9] Dean Gorge in Edinburgh, Midlothian Dob's Linn, Dumfriesshire [10] Glen Valtos on Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides [8] Ness Glen, Ayrshire [11] Nethan Gorge, Lanarkshire Puck's Glen, Argyllshire [12]

Wales Aberglaslyn Pass, Caernarfonshire Alyn Gorge, Denbighshire and Flintshire Ceunant Cynfal, Merionethshire [13] Ceunant Llennyrch, Merionethshire Clydach Gorge, Monmouthshire Dylife Gorge, Montgomeryshire Fairy Glen (Ffos Anoddun), at Betws-y-Coed, Caernarfonshire

Other countries

• Bulgaria— Trigrad Gorge
• Greenland— Greenland's Grand Canyon
• Iceland— Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon
• Macedonia— Matka Canyon
• Romania— Bicaz Gorge
• Kosovo— Rugova Canyon
• Ukraine— Dniester Canyon
• Spain— Congost de Mont-Rebei

Oceania

• 
  Skippers Canyon, New Zealand
• 
  Cathedral Gorge, Purnululu National Park, Western Australia
• 
  Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory of Australia
• 
  Murchison River Gorge, Western Australia
• 
  Capertee Valley, New South Wales
• 
  Jamison Valley, New South Wales

Australia

Joffre Gorge, Karijini National Park

Palm Valley, Finke Gorge National Park

• Barfold Gorge, Victoria
• Barron Gorge, Queensland
• Bouldercombe Gorge, Queensland
• Cambanoora Gorge, Queensland
• Capertee Valley, New South Wales
• Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland
• Cataract Gorge, Tasmania
• Dimond Gorge, Western Australia
• Galston Gorge, New South Wales
• Geikie Gorge National Park, Western Australia
• Jamison Valley, New South Wales
• Karijini National Park, Western Australia—contains gorges named Dales, Hamersley, Hancock, Joffre, Kalamina, Knox, Munjina, Range, Red, Weano, Wittenoom and Yampire; ^[14] blue asbestos exists in the latter two gorges ^[15]
• Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory
• Kings Canyon, Northern Territory
• Lerderderg Gorge, Victoria
• Little River Gorge, Victoria
• Loch Ard Gorge, Victoria
• Mossman Gorge, Queensland
• Murchison River Gorge, Western Australia
• Nepean Gorge, New South Wales
• North and South Gorges of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland
• Palm Valley, Northern Territory
• Porcupine Gorge, Queensland
• Purnululu National Park, Western Australia—Cathedral and Piccaninny Gorges, ^[16] and Echidna Chasm ^[17]
• Ravine des Casoars, South Australia
• Sturt Gorge, South Australia
• West MacDonnell National Park, Northern Territory
• Windjana Gorge, Western Australia

New Zealand

Kawarau Gorge

• Ashley Gorge, Canterbury region
• Buller Gorge, Buller
• Cromwell Gorge, Central Otago
• Karangahake Gorge, Coromandel Peninsula
• Karapoti Gorge, Wellington Region
• Kawarau Gorge, Central Otago
• Manawatū Gorge, Manawatū
• Ngauranga Gorge, Wellington City
• Poolburn Gorge, Central Otago
• Rakaia Gorge, Canterbury Region
• Skippers Canyon, Central Otago
• Taieri Gorge, South Otago
• Trotters Gorge, North Otago
• Waimakariri Gorge, Canterbury Region
• Weka Pass, Canterbury Region
• Windy Canyon, Great Barrier Island

Submarine canyons

A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley with nearly vertical walls cut into the seabed of the continental margin, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf. ^[18]

Atlantic Ocean

Model of Hudson Canyon, off the coast of New York and New Jersey

• Amazon Canyon, extending from the Amazon River off the coast of Brazil
• Avilés Canyon, off the coast of Asturias, Spain
• Baltimore Canyon, off the coast of Maryland
• Congo Canyon, extending from the Congo River off the coast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Great Bahama Canyon, between the islands of The Bahamas
• Hatteras Canyon, off the coast of North Carolina
• Hudson Canyon, extending from the Hudson River off the coast of New York City between the Long Island and the New Jersey coasts of the United States
• Mona Canyon, off the coast of western Puerto Rico
• Nazaré Canyon, off the coast of Portugal
• Whittard Canyon, off the southwest coast of Ireland
• Wilmington Canyon, off the coast of Delaware, the United States ^[19]

Indian Ocean

• Ganges Canyon, extending from the Ganges off the coast of India
• Indus Canyon, extending from the Indus River off the coast of Pakistan
• Perth Canyon, extending from the Swan River off the coast of Fremantle. Western Australia

Pacific Ocean

Map of Bering Canyon and four other submarine canyons in the Bering Sea

• Bering Canyon, in the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, the United States
• Kaikōura Canyon, off the coast of the Kaikōura Peninsula, New Zealand
• La Jolla Canyon, off the coast of La Jolla, California
• Monterey Canyon, off the coast of central California, the United States
• Pribilof Canyon, in the Bering Sea, southeast of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska
• Scripps Canyon, off the coast of La Jolla, southern California
• Zhemchug Canyon, in the central Bering Sea between the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia; the largest submarine canyon in the world based on drainage area

Black Sea

• Danube Canyon, off the coast of Romania

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