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The Colorado River was first documented by European explorers in the 1540s, with the Spanish explorer García López de Cárdenas being one of the first to see the Grand Canyon area in 1540. However, it wasn't until later expeditions, particularly John Wesley Powell's famous 1869 expedition, that the river was extensively explored and mapped. The river has been known to Indigenous peoples for thousands of years prior to European contact.

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