Death Valley
We want to tell you about the naming, geographical location, climate, animals, plants, tourists, and some interesting places of the Death Valley.
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geographical location – geographische Lage
Death Valley was named in 1849, as a series of horse-drawn carriage with immigrants who came across country to California lost them and landed in the valley for a few days. They must burn their wagons and kill their ox and eat them to survive. When they finally left the valley on foot, said one of the women, "Goodbye, Death Valley" and the name stuck.
Geography
The Death Valley National Park is about 330 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California on the eastern border of California. Death Valley is nearly 165 km long and has width of 19 to 25 km.
It is protected from the east and west by 1500 to 3000 meters high mountains
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border-Grenze
Climate
Death valley is the hottest place in the USA
The hottest month is July and the coldest month is December
The temperature record was 57 °C. It was on the 10 July 1913. The record low was -9°C.
Death Valley is also the driest place in North America because the water from the pacific gets lost by 5 mountains.
During the rain shadow effect for this dessert the precipitate there is 38mm in the year
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precipitate-Niederschlag
Death Valley has more then 1000 plant sorts.
In the Death Valley National park live coyotes, foxes, badgers mountain lions, bobcats, salamanders, frogs, tortoises, geckos, iguanas, sna.....[read full text]
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evaporation-verdunstung
Mesquite Sand Dunes
Mesquite Sand dunes are in the north of the valley on some places the sand is more then 200 meters deep.The Mesquite Sand Dune is used to sand dune scenes in films including (eingeschlossen) Star Wars
BadwaterBasin is a basin in Death ValleyNational Park, notes as the lowest point in North America, with an elevation of 86m .....