It is probably and at least in name, one of the best known sites in the United States, thanks to its frequent mention in novels and cowboy movies and its use as a location for science fiction movies, such as the recent version of the Stars Wars franchise. We talk about the Death Valley .
This desert, located between California and Nevada, was declared a national monument in 1933, and national park in 1994; It has an area of 13,518 km2 and is the driest and hottest place in all of North America .But there are more curious details about this park, such as the ten that we tell you below.
10 curious facts about the Death Valley
1.In the Death Valley you can find some of the oldest records of the presence of human beings in America, such as the petroglyphs , drawings in stone, made by the Saratoga Spring , a group that lived in this area 2,000 years ago .But before, 3,000 and 9,000 years ago , there were other towns that occupied the Death Valley, when there were still lakes and a more benign climate.
2.The Death Valley holds the record of the highest temperature recorded in Earth , 56.7ยบ C in Fumace Creek, on July 10, 1913.In 1922 a slightly higher temperature was reported in Libya, but later it was compiled robbery that there was an error in the reading of the thermometers, and in 2012 the record returned to the Death Valley.
3.Despite being the driest and driest place on the planet, in this desert there are more than a thousand species of plants that have adapted to thrive in such hostile conditions, modifying the leaves to reduce evotranspiration and creating extensive root systems to make the most of soil moisture.
4.Curiously, the year in which the highest temperature was recorded, 1913, was also the one with the highest amount of rainfall since records are kept, and it was only 114 millimeters.
5.Following the theme of heat, in 2001 in Death Valley a 100-day record in a row With temperatures above 37.7ยบ C.
6.In the Valley is the deepest depression in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, Badwater , with 86 meters below sea level.
7.In the part of the park located in Nevada is Devil's Hole, “the Devil's Hole”.
It's a window to a lake Underground that is extremely sensitive to Earth movements, to the point of small tsunamis when there have been earthquakes in places as distant as Japan, Indonesia and Chile.
8.The origin of the name of this park is less dramatic than it suggests.In 1849 a group of p Ions, gold diggers, went astray in the desert, and before finding the road one of them died.When they left the desert one of the travelers said: “Goodbye, Death Valley!” , and the name was attached to the region.
9.There are more than 100 abandoned ghost towns and mines in the Death Valley and it was a regular step of pioneers and gold diggers in the mid-nineteenth century.
However, the lack of water and extremely hostile conditions caused the miners to continue the search for fortune in other parts of California.There are still standing ruins of many of these populated.
10.In Racetrack Beach you will find the "traveling stones" , rocks that change places without human or animal intervention.
Only in recent times was the explanation achieved to this phenomenon: when the desert soil freezes, it acts like a waxed floor and rocks of great volume and weight can be displaced by a strong wind.
For these and other reasons, perhaps the Valle de Parque Nacional de Death is one of those places that we should know before we die, as well as the oldest on the planet, or these that you could not believe exist.
Images: Tom Hilton, Jonathan, LDELD, Rob DeGraff, Eden, Janine and Jim, Paxson Woelber
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