Death Valley National Park

[Halona]

Death Valley National Park is a national park of USA. It’s located between California and Nevada states. Sierra Nevada is at the east side of this park.
The area of this park is about 3,373,063 acres. It’s established in Feb. 11, 1993 and announced national park on oct.31, 1994.
It’s the hottest, driest and lowest area in North America. And in these days it’s the warmest area in the world so it’s called Death Valley. It is 282 feet below from sea level.

[rhiannon]

Highest temperature on Earth was recorded there

[turkojew]

Highest temperature on Earth was recorded there

no it was in libya i believe

[XUTERO]

If the see level rises, it might eventually be totally submerged.

[rhiannon]

no it was in libya i believe

Nope. Officially, it's Death Valley. Recorder error apparently rendered disqualification of the alleged temp in Libya....according to Wiki and a few other sources.

[rhiannon]

rhiannon ! have you never visited this valley? I wanted to know the tourists reviews about this valley, because my aunt has planned to visit this valley ,but she is confused about its weather and nearest staying hotels and much more issues. Any suggestions?

I have not.

You wouldn't catch me dead in death valley I hate heat

[LouisFerdinand]

[KMack]

Piggy back on this thread.
An Accidental Sea
Beginning in 1900, to help irrigate fertile but dry lands in the Imperial Valley, canals were built across the southern edge of the Salton Basin. Too small to handle flood waters and shoddily built, in 1905 after heavy rainfall and snowmelt, massive amounts of water pouring into one canal from the Colorado River overran two dykes and broke the canal’s headworks. Over the next 18 months, despite efforts to stop it, water from the Colorado flowed freely into the massive basin, creating two new rivers, the New and the Alamo, and a freshwater lake, the Salton Sea.
An Unhealthy Ecosystem
Following the earlier pattern, the chemicals, nitrogen, fertilizers and salts from agricultural and industrial runoff again overpowered the fragile ecosystem of the Salton Sea, and large fish and bird die offs began to occur. In fact, in 1999, an algae bloom of such magnitude happened that over 7 million Tilapia died from lack of oxygen (their corpses littered some parts of the Salton Sea for the next decade).

Over the last 15 years, conditions have only worsened. In 2005, salinity levels in the Salton Sea had exceeded that of the ocean by 30% and reached 45,000 parts per million, the point at which at least one of the Sea’s fish species, corvina, will no longer spawn.

In addition to this environmental disaster, many are also concerned that once the Sea completely dries up, it will generate tons of harmful dust that will pose a public health threat and devastate the local economy.

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