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Death Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park:

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

  • It is a desert valley located in the southeastern part of California, United States.
  • It is the hottest and driest place in North America.
  • It is the location of the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States.
  • 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.
  • 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).