That world cup match in Monterey will have them thinking they're in Death Valley.
Death Valley is a desert valley in
Eastern California, in the northern
Mojave Desert, bordering the
Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the
hottest place on Earth during summer.
[3] Death Valley is home to the
Timbisha tribe of Native Americans, formerly known as the Panamint Shoshone, who have inhabited the valley for at least the past millennium.
Death Valley's
Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level.
[1] It is 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of
Mount Whitney — the highest point in the
contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m).
[4] On the afternoon of July 10, 1913, the
United States Weather Bureau recorded a high temperature of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at
Furnace Creek in Death Valley,
[5] which stands as the
highest ambient air temperature ever recorded on the surface of the Earth.
[6] This reading, however, and several others taken in that period are disputed by some modern experts.
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Lying mostly in
Inyo County, California, near the border of
California and
Nevada, in the
Great Basin, east of the
Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of
Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It runs from north to south between the
Amargosa Range on the east and the
Panamint Range on the west. The
Grapevine Mountains and the
Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively.
[8] It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km2).
[9] The highest point in Death Valley National Park is
Telescope Peak, in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m).
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