Badwater Basin
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft below sea level. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles to the northwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Devils Golf Course.
Devils Golf Course
Scenic viewpoint
Places of interest in the Death Valley area are mostly located within Death Valley National Park in eastern California. Devils Golf Course is situated 2½ miles north of Badwater Basin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Badwater.
Badwater
Locality
Photo: Qfl247, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft below sea level. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles to the northwest. Badwater is situated 3½ miles southeast of Badwater Basin.
Badwater Basin
- Type: Basin with an elevation of -279 feet
- Description: endorheic basin in Death Valley, noted as the lowest point in North America
- Categories: depression, endorheic basin, and body of water
- Location: Inyo County, Desert, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Badwater Basin” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cuenca Badwater”
- Basque: “Badwater Arroa”
- Catalan: “Conca Badwater”
- Cebuano: “Badwater Basin”
- Chinese: “巴德沃特盆地”
- Chinese: “巴特沃特盆地”
- Chinese: “恶水盆地”
- Chinese: “惡水盆地”
- Czech: “Badwater Basin”
- Dutch: “Badwater”
- Esperanto: “Badwater”
- Finnish: “Badwater”
- French: “Badwater”
- Galician: “Bacía Badwater”
- Georgian: “ბედუოტერის აუზი”
- German: “Badwater Basin”
- German: “Badwater”
- Hebrew: “אגן בדווטר”
- Hungarian: “Badwater-medence”
- Indonesian: “Cekungan Badwater”
- Italian: “Bacino di Badwater”
- Italian: “Badwater”
- Japanese: “バッドウォーター”
- Kazakh: “Бэдуотер”
- Kurdish: “Badwater”
- Luxembourgish: “Badwater Basin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Badwater Basin”
- Persian: “بدواتر بیسین”
- Persian: “حوضه بدواتر”
- Persian: “حوضهٔ بدواتر”
- Polish: “Badwater”
- Portuguese: “Bacia de Badwater”
- Romanian: “Badwater”
- Russian: “Badwater”
- Russian: “Бэдуотер”
- Slovenian: “Badwater”
- Slovenian: “kotlina Badwater”
- Spanish: “Cuenca Badwater”
- Spanish: “Cuenca de Badwater”
- Swedish: “Badwater”
- Turkish: “Badwater Havzası”
- Ukrainian: “Бедвотер”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Amargosa River and Tule Spring.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Badwater Basin”. Photo: Ivan, CC BY-SA 3.0.