Amargosa River

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Amargosa River
Amargosa River at Tecopa

Amargosa River at Tecopa

Data
Water code US :  238578
location California , Nevada (USA)
River system Amargosa River
source Thirsty Canyon ( Pahute Mesa )
37 ° 4 ′ 20 ″  N , 116 ° 41 ′ 19 ″  W.
muzzle Badwater ( Death Valley ) Coordinates: 36 ° 14 ′ 37 "  N , 116 ° 51 ′ 24"  W 36 ° 14 ′ 37 "  N , 116 ° 51 ′ 24"  W.
Mouth height 85  m below sea level

length 320 km
periodic flow

The Amargosa River is a periodic river approximately 320 km long in the border region of Nevada and California in the United States of America . The name of the river means “bitter” in Spanish .

In the southern part of the Great Basin at the transition to the Mojave Desert area, the river flows temporarily from the heights of the north-west of Las Vegas ( Nevada located) desert region in the Californian Death Valley ( Death Valley ), where he eventually seeps into the sand. Apart from a small section of the Amargosa Gorge in California , the Amargosa River only carries water after one of the rare large floods of rain.

Name variants

The river has several designations:

  • Alkali Creek
  • Amargoshe Creek
  • Aramozza Creek
  • Armagosa Creek
  • Bitter water
  • Bitter Water Creek
  • Muddy River
  • Salaratus Creek
  • Saleratus Creek
  • The bitter water

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Amargosa River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  2. ^ A b c d Helen S. Carlson: Nevada Place Names, A Geographical Dictionary, Reno, Nevada. University of Nevada Press, 1974, p. 37.
  3. ^ A b c Helen S. Carlson: Nevada Place Names, A Geographical Dictionary, Reno, Nevada. University of Nevada Press, 1974, p. 36.
  4. ^ TS Palmer: Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada . Sagebrush Press, Morongo Valley, California 1980, p. 7.
  5. ^ Nevada 1881
  6. ↑ Walter R. Avertt: Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names . Self-published, 1963, p. 73.