This list of canyons and gorges includes both land and submarine canyons with the land canyons being sorted by continent and then by country. Africa South Africa Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal (The word Kloof means 'gorge' in Afrikaans) Komati Gorge Lanner Gorge Oribi Gorge, KwaZulu-Natal Other countries Lesotho - Senqu River Canyon Lesotho - Maletsunyane River Gorge Lesotho - Makhaleng River Canyon Cameroon- Gorges de Kola Egypt- Arada Canyon Ethiopia- Blue Nile Gorge Madagascar- Isalo Canyon MaliTalari Gorges Morocco- Todgha Gorge NamibiaFish River Canyon Republic of Congo- Gorges of Diosso TanzaniaOlduvai Gorge TunisiaMides Canyon Americas Argentina Atuel Canyon, Mendoza Province Pinturas River Canyon, Santa Cruz Province Talampaya River Canyon Brazil Guartelá Canyon, Paraná Itaimbezinho, Aparados da Serra National Park, Rio Grande do Sul Fortaleza Canyon, Aparados da Serra National Park, Rio Grande do Sul Canada Agawa Canyon, Ontario Barron River (Ontario) Canyon Sainte-Anne, Quebec Painted Chasm, British Columbia Farwell Canyon, British Columbia Fraser Canyon, British Columbia Grand Canyon of the Stikine, British Columbia Horseshoe Canyon, Alberta Niagara Gorge, Ontario Ouimet Canyon, Ontario Chile Cajón del Maipo, Santiago Metropolitan Region Colombia Chicamocha Canyon, Santander Saturban canyon, Santander Mexico Copper Canyon, Chihuahua Huasteca Canyon, Monterrey Sumidero Canyon, Chiapas Peru Colca Canyon, Arequipa Cotahuasi Canyon, Arequipa United States Antelope Canyon, Arizona Ausable Chasm, New York Bad Rock Canyon, Montana Bighorn Canyon, Montana and Wyoming Big South Fork of the Cumberland River gorge, Kentucky and Tennessee Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado Bluejohn Canyon, Utahsite of Aron Ralston's accident Breaks Canyon, Kentucky and Virginia Buckskin Gulch, Utahpossibly the longest, deepest slot canyon in the world at over ; a tributary of the Paria River Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Canyonlands National Park, canyons of the Colorado River and its main tributary the Green River, Utah Canyons of the Escalante, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah Cataract Canyon, Utah Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Cloudland Canyon, Georgia Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon Desolation Canyon, Utah Dismals Canyon, Alabama Echo Canyon, Nevada Flaming Gorge, Utah and Wyoming Flume Gorge, New Hampshire Fremont River Canyon, Utah Gates of Lodore, Colorado Genesee River Gorge, New York Glen Canyon, Utah and Arizona Glenwood Canyon, Colorado Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, Yosemite National Park, California Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Grand Coulee, Washington Gulf Hagas, Maine Hells Canyon, Idaho, Oregon and Washington Horseshoe Canyon, Utah James River Gorge, Virginia