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The Amargosa Desert is located in western Nevada , USA , along the border with California . The valley lies at an elevation of about 2,600 - 2,750 feet, and includes the community of Amargosa Valley , which lie at the southern end of the desert. The Amargosa desert lies between the Funeral Mountains on the west and Yucca Mountain and the Nellis Air Force Range to the east, in Nye County . Death Valley © 2004 Matthew Trump File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Death Valley © 2004 Matthew Trump File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 7th 286,367 km² 519 km 788 km 0. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi 410,000 km² 250 miles 402. ...
Amargosa Valley is a town located in Nye County, Nevada. ...
Death Valley The Funeral Mountains are short arid mountain range in the United States along the California-Nevada border approximately 100 mi (160 km) west of Las Vegas. ...
Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain is a ridge-line in Nye County, Nevada; composed of volcanic material (mostly tuff) ejected from a now-extinct caldera-forming supervolcano. ...
The Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR) is a training facility of the United States Air Force located in the desert of southern Nevada in the United States. ...
Nye County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ...
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Amargosa River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (458 words)
The Amargosa River is an intermittent stream, approximately 200 mi (320 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It enters the northern Mojave Desert where passes west along the southern side of the Amargosa Range, then turns north in a U-shape, flowing along the western side of the range and entering the southern end of Death Valley. The section of the river where it flows perennially is in the Amargosa Canyon along the southeast end of the Amargosa Range near the town of Shoshone, California.
Amargosa River (887 words)
The Amargosa is an ancient river, flowing though an "antecedent canyon" that has always been its ancestral route. The rare Amargosa vole is found in wetlands adjacent to the river and nowhere else in the world. The Amargosa could be the first desert river in California to achieve federal recognition and protection.
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