Little Colorado River Gorge, Grand Canyon, AZ

View of the Little Colorado River Gorge and Confluence in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Showing Navajo Nation land and areas of the Grand Canyon National Park. About 3 miles up the Little Colorado River is the "Sipapu" or "Sipapuni", a travertine dome believed by members of the Hopi tribe to be the place of emergence into this world from a previous world that was destroyed by a flood due to the wicked or "two-heartedness" of those in the previous world. The location is sacred to the Hopi, and is currenrly part of the Navajo Nation tribal lands. Not far upstream from the Sipapu is Blue Spring, the source of the blue-green waters of the Little Colorado River, made possible because of disolved limestone calcium carbonate and trace amounts of copper sulfate. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab