Key Facts about Death Valley

About Death Valley:

• It is a desert valley located in the southeastern part of California, United States of America.
• It is the lowest, hottest, and driest portion of the North American continent. 
• It covers an area of 7,800 sq. km. It is estimated that about 1,425 sq. km of the floor of the valley is located below sea level. 
• 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 theGreat Basin to the east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the northern part of the Mojave Desert. 
• The Death Valley constitutes a major part of the Death Valley National Park as well as the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve.
• It is bounded by the Grapevine, Funeral, and the Black Mountains of the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint and the Cottonwood Mountains of the Panamint Range on the west.
• The Valley features a diverse landscape that includes mountain peaks, canyons, sand dunes, salt flats, badlands, and volcanic craters.
• Portions of the great salt panthat forms part of the floor of the valley are the lowest land areas of the Americas.
• Located in the heart of the Death Valley National Park is an endorheic basin known as the Badwater Basin, is the lowest area in North America.
• Highest point: Telescope Peak (3,366m) located in Panamint Range.