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The Land

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Copper Canyon is the name for a group of six canyons in the Sierra Madre range of southwestern Chihuahua.

spectacular canyons. It is cut by the Urique River and has deep, wide gorges so remote that parts of it have never been explored on foot. This region is also known as the Sierra Tarahumara, after the Indians who live there. No copper is found here; the canyon is named for the color of its walls. The Sierra Madre Occidental forms the western rim of the Plateau of Mexico, and it runs from Chihuahua down through Durango and then into Zacatecas, the Mexican states that lie to the south. For hundreds of years, this mountain range