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Annual rain fall 1.5 inches.
Annual (potential) evaporation
is the highest in the world at
128 inches.
Highest average rain fall was
recorded in 1913 at 4.5 inches.
Highest temperature of 134
degrees (F) 57(C), was recorded
on July 10th 1913.
The Badwater area is the lowest
point in the western hemisphere
@ -282ft.
2001 saw a record of 153
consecutive days with daytime
high temperatures above 100
degrees.
900 different species of plants
exist in the Park.
3.337.628.88 acres of land of
which 3.000.000 are wilderness
in two States, California and
Nevada.
Death Valley National Park
received 1.064.784 visitors in
2001
President Herbert Hoover
proclaimed Death Valley as a
National Monument on Feb 11th
1933.
On Oct 31 1994 William Jefferson
Clinton signed the Desert
Protection Act changing the
status to that of a National
Park, increasing the acreage by
1.300.000.
Native American's have lived in
Death Valley and the surrounding
area for around 1000 years. The
tribe is now known as the
Timbisha Shoshone.
During the Pleistocene era, the
floor of Death Valley was once a
lake.
Lake Manly stretched for a
hundred miles, and was as deep
as 600ft. |
