- Colorado Plateau - a large plateau south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner
--1 is a kind of tableland, plateau
--1 is a part of
--1 has part: Grand CanyonUtah, Beehive State, Mormon State, UT; Colorado, Centennial State, CO; New Mexico, Land of Enchantment, NM; Arizona, Grand Canyon State, AZ