Aztec Butte

Aztec Butte babban taro ne na dutse, tsawo 6,312 feet (mita 1,924), wanda ke cikin tsibirin a cikin Sky District na Canyonlands National Park, a cikin San Juan County, Utah."Aztec Butte". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 12, 2020  Aztec Butte ya ƙunshi fararen giciye na Navajo Sandstone, wanda shine ragowar yashi mai iska wanda aka ajiye kimanin shekaru miliyan 170 da suka gabata a lokacin Jurassic Period. Ya yi kama da Pyramid of the Sun a Mexico, wanda Aztecs suka gina.Stewart M. Green, Best Easy Day Hikes Moab, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020, pake 115.

Mutanen Puebloan na kakanninmu sun yi tafiya zuwa tsibirin a yankin Sky don farauta da tattara tsaba, sannan suka adana abincin su a cikin hatsi na dutse kusa da saman Aztec Butte. Wadannan hatsi da aka adana da kyau sun kasance daga AD -1300.Greg Witt, 50 Best Short Hikes: Utah's National Parks, 2nd ed., 2014, Wilderness Press, page 99.  Hanyar tafiya ta rabin mil ta hanyar ciyawa mai laushi, sannan kuma ta hanyar tsalle-tsalle mai laushi tare da fa'ida ta 200 feet, tana kaiwa saman butte da granaries. Hanyar tana kusa da hanyar zuwa Upheaval Dome . Baya ga Upheaval Dome, wasu abubuwan jan hankali da ke kusa sun haɗa da Mesa Arch wanda ke ƙasa da 1   zuwa kudu maso gabas, Muffin Butte zuwa kudu, Green River Overlook zuwa kudu maso yamma, da Trail Canyon zuwa arewa. Ruwan sama daga Aztec Butte ya kwarara zuwa Green River.

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Lokacin bazara da faduwa sune lokutan da suka fi dacewa don ziyartar Aztec Butte. Dangane da tsarin rarraba yanayi na Köppen, yana cikin yankin yanayi mai sanyi, wanda aka bayyana ta hanyar watan sanyi wanda ke da matsakaicin matsakaicin zafin jiki a ƙasa da -0 ° C (32 ° F) kuma aƙalla 50% na jimlar ruwan sama na shekara-shekara da ake karɓa a lokacin bazara da rani. Wannan yanayin hamada yana karɓar ƙasa da inci 10 (250 millimeters) na ruwan sama na shekara-shekara, kuma dusar ƙanƙara yawanci yana da sauƙi a lokacin hunturu.  

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