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.
- 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).
