Painted Desert, Colorado (CO), United States

Facts & Statistics
Place Name	Painted Desert
Place Status (Type)	desert
Location	Colorado, United States, North America
Latitude	unknown
Longitude	unknown

Painted Desert , badlands NE of the Little Colorado R.; Coconino, Navajo, and Apache cos.; NE Ariz.; stretching c.200 mi/322 km SE from the Grand Canyon. Includes N part of Petrified Forest Natl. Park. Partly in Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservation. Striking bands of color result from irregularly eroded layers of red and yellow sediment and bentonite clay.