Which is the deepest gorge in the world?

Known as the deepest gorge in the world, Kali Gandaki Gorge is estimated to be roughly 6,000 meters deep but the very bottom still has yet to be confirmed, while the mountains surrounding it reach an ultimate height of almost 6,000 meters (18,000 feet).



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Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon in China's Tibet is known as the world's deepest canyon. The 504-km-long grand canyon starts in Mainling County and ends in Medog County.

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The deepest canyon in the United States isn't the Grand Canyon, instead, it's Hells Canyon, a 10-mile-long canyon with a maximum depth of 7,993 feet. This large canyon sits in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. Hells Canyon is also part of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.

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From the top of the Seven Devils Mountains to the deepest part of the Snake River, Hells Canyon is nearly 8,000 feet deep. That's almost 2,000 feet deeper than the famous Grand Canyon in Arizona.

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Known as the deepest gorge in the world, Kali Gandaki Gorge is estimated to be roughly 6,000 meters deep but the very bottom still has yet to be confirmed, while the mountains surrounding it reach an ultimate height of almost 6,000 meters (18,000 feet).

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Nestled along the Idaho and Oregon border lies one of the greatest natural wonders in North America: Hells Canyon. Carved by the Snake River, the gorge is ten miles wide and plunges 7,913 feet. That's 2,000 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon – making it the deepest river gorge in North America.

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The Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA Carved by the Colorado river, the canyon at 277 miles (446 km) long is the biggest one on Earth. Two billion years of our planet's geological history are evident here. Native Americans have been living here for centuries, inhabiting the caves and gorges.

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The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is a paleoanthropological site in the eastern Serengeti Plain, near northern Tanzania, in East Africa. The gorge is nicknamed the “Cradle of Mankind” because it is believed to be the site of found remains of the first human beings to walk on Earth.

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There are no dinosaur bones in the Grand Canyon.

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Being one of the deepest canyons in Colorado, it is also known as the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas (River), with a maximum depth of 1,250 ft (380 m).

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The name Hells Canyon is believed to come from the difficult and rugged journey through the terrain by boat. The first known reference to it as Hells Canyon is in the 1895 edition of H.W. McCurdy's “Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.”

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Arizona's Grand Canyon of the Colorado is acknowledged as the greatest of them all; it is not as deep as Hells Canyon, but it is wider, longer, more rugged, and far more colorful. Its depth is two to three times that of the Black Canyon.

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The entire route is on a paved highway. Plan ahead – you'll find stretches of more than eighty miles without gas and with few services. A segment of the Byway between Joseph and Halfway closes with snow in winter, but allows access to winter recreation areas, offering a whole other kind of Northeast Oregon adventure.

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BLYDE RIVER CANYON (SOUTH AFRICA) Modestly, South Africa claims only a podium position, claiming its spectacular Blyde River Canyon as the third largest in the world.

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The Columbia Gorge is one of our planet's most stunning places. The Columbia River snakes through this spectacular canyon on its westward journey before joining the Pacific Ocean. Nowhere else on earth exists such a wonder of desert and forest, cliffs and waterfalls, sun and rain.

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