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English: Dead Horse Point is a small state park covering just a few square miles of land at the edge of the plateau just north of the Island in the Sky region, and is reached by a 4 mile side road off the main approach to Canyonlands, just before the national park boundary. The high grassy plateau between the Green and Colorado rivers has a long history of ranching and cattle grazing, and one episode is remembered by the name given to a narrow promontory that overlooks a large area of eroded red rock cliffs and canyons on the east side. The story goes that local stockmen rounded up a group of wild horses and corralled them by building a fence across the narrowest part, leaving the herd trapped at the far side. The animals were left too long without water and all died of thirst, so the area became known as Dead Horse Point