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Mesa Verde Wallpaper

Wallpaper — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:40:37 +0000

The stone remains of a pre-Columbian Anasazi settlement, Cliff Palace, bear witness to the rich cultural history of Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. The Anasazi built these cliffside dwellings with sandstone, mortar, and wooden beams held together with a natural mortar and painted with plaster.

Grand Canyon Wallpaper

Wallpaper — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:36:24 +0000

Water and wind created this smooth, heavily eroded terrace of barren rock known as the Esplanade on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Most visitorsâ€”about 90 percentâ€”gawk down into the canyon from the South Rim and miss the other features, including the Esplanade, found throughout the canyon’s colossal footprint.

Scenic Chile Wallpapers

Wallpaper — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:29:48 +0000

Chilie is a beutiful country filled with some of natures most scenic sites. Downloading one of these great Chile wallpapers may be the next best thing to visiting.

Sunset casts a rosy glow over granite peaks encircling a glacial lake in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. Chile’s prized jewel, the 598,000-acre (242,000-hectare) national park is a mosaic of landforms including soaring mountains, golden pampas, and grinding ice fields.

Hundred-foot-tall (30-meter-tall) araucaria trees surrounding a waterfall reach for the stars in Chile’s Copahue Provincial Park. Living relics of the Jurassic period, these thousand-year-old giants stand as symbols of Patagonian tenacity in a landscape both severe and sublime.

The 69,930-acre (28,300-hectare) Copahue Provincial Park, on the eastern border of Chile, is home to prehistoric araucaria forests, vast prairies, snowy Andean peaks, picturesque lakes, and lunar-like landscapes of rock formations, shown here. The park sits in the massive collapsed caldera of Copahue volcano.

For more great Chilie Wallpaper, visit National Geographic’s website.