Death Valley National Park

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After record-breaking rains, an ancient lake in Death Valley national park that had vanished has returned to view.

About Death Valley National Park

• It is a desert valley located in the southeastern part of California, United States.
• It is the hottest and driest place in North America, with summer temperatures peaking above 120 degrees and average rainfall a mere two inches per year.
• It is the location of the highest temperature (134°F on July 10, 1913) ever recorded in the United States.
• Also extreme are the park’s elevations: Badwater Basin rests at 282 feet below sea level (the lowest area in North America), while Telescope Peak soars to 11,049 feet. 
• It is the largest national park in the continental United States.
• It is a rift valley, or a graben, that has been formed due to the sinking of a huge expanse of rock located between major block-faulted mountains running parallelly in the east and west.
• It lies in the Great Basin to the east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the northern part of the Mojave Desert.
• Death Valley hosts landscapes ranging from snow-covered mountains and dunes to wildflower-filled meadows and steep, rugged canyons.
• Despite the low precipitation and extreme summer temperatures, Death Valley is home to many diverse species, several of which are endemic (found nowhere else in the world).

Source: TG

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