Colca Canyon, Peru











The Peruvians are insistent upon this canyon being the second deepest in the world. The third being the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, and the first in another nearby remote part of Peru. This particular geologic collision was quite different than any thing I have seen or read about in the southwest US. A river flows deep below two massive mountain chains and there were no common crusts or layers upon either side to denote common events or ages amidst the cutting of the river. This area has also been affected by earthquakes.