Barranca de Oblatos

Barranca de Oblatos, also known as Barranca de Huentitán, is a canyon carved by the Río Grande de Santiago in Mexico in the state of Jalisco. It lies on the northeast side of the municipality of Guadalajara and on the edge of the municipalities of Tonalá, Zapotlanejo, Ixtlahuacán del Río and Zapopan in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.

Its beauty and structure make it physically resemble a smaller version of the Grand Canyon in the United States, or Barranca del Cobre in Chihuahua.It includes approximately 1,137 hectares and it has an average depth of 600 metres. The difference in elevation between the rim of the canyon and the river is 520 metres at the point of a funicular. This canyon is also named Oblatos-Huentitán due to the areas in the city crossed by it, called Oblatos and Huentitán respectively.