Canyons
A canyon or gorge is a deep valley between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Andrefana Dry Forests | the spectacular canyon of the Manambolo river - Unesco website | |
| Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks | Maligne Canyon | |
| Causses and Cévennes | Gorges du Tarn | |
| Chiribiquete National Park | "With swooping aerial footage and detailed close-ups, it reveals a landscape of canyons and caves, lakes and lagoons, rivers and rock masses" | |
| Desembarco del Granma National Park | the canyons of Caleta, Jauco, Caletica, Maya, Río Seco, and Boca del Toro rivers (nomination file) | |
| Dolomites | Rio delle Foglie/Bletterbach | |
| Durmitor National Park | ||
| Ennedi Massif | The plateau is cut by deep valleys and canyons (OUV) | |
| Grand Canyon | ||
| Greater Blue Mountains | Capertee Valley, "the world's second largest canyon" | |
| Gunung Mulu | Melinau Gorge Canyon | |
| Iguazu National Park | a narrow 80m-wide canyon, el Garganto de Diablo (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Ironbridge Gorge | ||
| Ischigualasto / Talampaya | Talampaya Canyon | |
| Nahanni National Park | Four smaller canyons | |
| Namib Sand Sea | Kuiseb Canyon | |
| Petra | The Siq | |
| Pitons of Reunion | ||
| Purnululu National Park | Piccaninny Gorge | |
| Pyrénées - Mont Perdu | ||
| Simien National Park | ||
| Skocjan Caves | Contains one of the largest underground canyons in the world (AB ev) | |
| Tanbaly | the Chu-Ili mountain spur forms a canyon around the Tamgaly Gorge (AB ev) | |
| Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley | The canyon of Tehuacán-Cuicatlán is a deep gorge surrounded by peaks more than 3,000 m high (AB ev) | |
| Victoria Falls | "eight steep sided gorges" (OUV) | |
| Wadi Rum | ||
| Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi | ||
| Xinjiang Tianshan | Aksu Canyon | |
| Yellowstone | Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone |
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