Amargosa River

The Amargosa River is an intermittent stream, approximately 200 mi (320 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It drains a high desert region northwest of Las Vegas into Death Valley, where it disappears into the ground. Except for a small portion of its route in the Amargosa Canyon in California, the river flows only after a rare rainstorm washes the region. Amargosa River © 2004 Matthew Trump File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Amargosa River © 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 Largest city Carson City Las Vegas Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 7th 110,567 sq mi  286,367 km² 322 miles  519 km 490 miles  788 km 0. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq. ... Nickname The Entertainment Capital of the World Location Location of Las Vegas in Nevada Government County Clark Mayor Oscar B. Goodman Geographical characteristics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 113. ... Death Valley and Panamint Range Death Valley is a valley in California that is located southeast of the Sierra Nevada range in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert, comprising much of Death Valley National Park. ...

Description

It rises in Nye County, Nevada, along the southern side of Pahute Mesa in the Nellis Air Force Range. When carrying water, it flows southwest, crossing the Sarcobatus Flats and passing the town of Beatty. At Beatty it turns southeast to flow across the Amargosa Desert along the east side of the Funeral Mountains. It crosses into eastern California, along the east side of the Amargosa Range, passing through the 20 mi (32 km) Amargosa Canyon. It enters the northern Mojave Desert where it 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. It flows northward through the basin to the center of the valley, disappearing into the ground near Badwater Basin to feed to the aquifer that is the remnant of prehistoric Lake Manly. The lower course of the river in Death Valley is within Death Valley National Park. Nye County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ... 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. ... Beatty, Nevada Beatty is a census-designated place and town located on the Amargosa River in Nye County, Nevada. ... Amargosa Desert The Amargosa Desert is located in western Nevada, USA, along the border with California. ... 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. ... The Armagosa Range is a mountain range located near Death Valley. ... Looking across from Emigrant Pass towards the Kingston Range in the eastern Mojave. ... Badwater Basin elevation sign Badwater is a site in Californias Death Valley noted as the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, with an elevation of 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. ... An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, or permeable mixtures of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) (see also groundwater). ... The Lake Manly lake system as it might have looked during its last maximum extent 22,000 years ago. ... Death Valley National Park is a mostly arid national park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Inyo County, California, USA with a small extension and exclave (Devils Hole) in Nevada. ...

The name the of river is Spanish for bitter water. The river is an ancient stream, following an antecedent canyon. Evidence of human habitation along the river goes back approximately 10,000 years to the end of the last ice age, when the area was much wetter. In addition to prehistoric Lake Manly in Death Valley, the middle river valley was submerged during the late Pleistocene by prehistoric Lake Tecopah. The canyon floor along the Amargosa Range has remnants of indigeneous habitations that are protected by the Bureau of Land Management. The Old Spanish Trail followed the course of the river in the 19th century. From 1907 to 1941, the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad followed the lower course of the river serving remote Death Valley communities. Grand Canyon, Arizona canyon, or gorge, is a valley walled by cliffs. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... The Pleistocene epoch (pronounced like ply-stow-seen) is part of the geologic timescale. ... US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ... The Old Spanish Trail is a historic trade route which connected the northern New Mexican settlement of Santa Fé with that of Los Ángeles in California. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was a a class II railroad extending through remote reaches of the Mojave Desert at Ludlow, California, through Death Valley and terminating at the mining camps of southwestern Nevada. ...

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. Along a 20 mi (32 km) stretch in the Amargosa Canyon it sustains a small margin of riparian wetlands in the surrounding desert. The water, as the name suggests, is non-potable by humans but is a critical source of water for the area wildlife in this section. Shoshone is a census-designated place located in Inyo County, California. ... A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ...

See also

• List of rivers in the Great Basin

This is a list of rivers in the enclosed Great Basin of North America Amargosa River - Death Valley (Nevada, California) Bear River - Great Salt Lake (Utah, Wyoming, Idaho) Carson River - Carson Sink (Nevada) Humboldt River - Humboldt Sink (Nevada) Little Humboldt River North Fork Humboldt River Reese River Jordan River - Great...

External links

• Friends of the River: Amargosa River
• California Wild Heritage Campaign-Saving wild places in the Eastern Sierra