Monument Valley (Monument Valley) - Another Arizona "magnet for tourists"; located on the border of Arizona and Utah, giant rock sticking out of the land of bizarre shapes known in the world, perhaps, not much less than the Grand Canyon.

 

Covers an area of ​​114,000 square miles, Arizona is the sixth largest state of the country in which there are more than six million people. Thanks to its attractions every year come to Arizona more than thirty million tourists.

 

On the state flag depicts the sun's rays without reason - Arizona climate is characterized by a relatively low rainfall and high temperatures, reaching in the summer to forty degrees Celsius. Rains occur mainly in the hills area and quite rare in the desert areas of the state; but on the mountain tops in the north of the state can be detected and snow.

 

Despite the fact that the reservations of Arizona live half a dozen Indian tribes, the total number of indigenous inhabitants of the continent is only about five percent of the residents of the state. About three quarters of Arizonans - white; approximately every third arizonets - Hispanic.

 

Burned Arizona sun land rich in minerals; State bowels contain about two-thirds of the country's copper reserves, as eloquently reminds copper-colored star, located in the heart of Arizona's flag. Agriculture, cattle breeding, milk production, industrial production - all this, of course, also present in Arizona, but is not the main components of the state's economy.

 

Huge Arizona desert have long been known as the place of the dislocation of many American military airbases. In addition, the American cinema figures also do not leave this place without attention - Arizona land became a place of filming such famous bands as "Three Kings," "Forrest Gump," "Track 60," "Days of Thunder" and many others.