Waterfalls of Arizona
Most of Arizona's waterfalls are found in the Grand Canyon. At first this may seem like a contradiction because of how hot and arid the climate is. However, much of the precipitation that falls as snow in the winter and thunderstorms in the summer monsoons seeps underneath the porous layers of rock at the surface. As a result, there are underground systems of water that manage to escape the evaporative energies of the desert sun and eventually emerge further below the canyon rims as springs. The most dramatic examples of this phenomenon occurs in the Havasupai Indian Reservation, which is in a side canyon of the Grand Canyon that is watched over by the Havasupai people instead of the National Park Service. Here, Havasu Creek emerges from its protected underground journey to feed year-round waterfalls such Havasu Falls and Mooney Falls. There are several other examples deep in the National Park portions of the canyon, but all of them require difficult treks into its fiery depths.
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