Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is located in Nye County in western Nevada, United States, along the California–Nevada border, comprising the northeastern portion of the geographic Amargosa Valley, north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in Nevada and California, United States
- Also known as: “Amargoza Desert”, “Great Amargosa Desert”, and “Great Armagosa Desert”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amargosa Valley.
Amargosa Valley
Village
Photo: Mark Holloway, CC BY 2.0.
Amargosa Valley is an unincorporated town located on U.S. Route 95 in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.
Amargosa Desert
- Category: landform
- Location: Nye, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.6019° or 36° 36′ 7″ northLongitude
-116.557° or 116° 33′ 25″ westElevation
2,411 feet (735 metres)Open location code
8585JC2V+Q6OpenStreetMap ID
node 369161516OpenStreetMap feature
natural=desert
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Amargosa Desert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صحراء أمارغوسا”
- Basque: “Amargosa basamortua”
- Cebuano: “Amargosa Desert”
- Dutch: “Amargosa desert”
- Dutch: “Amargosawoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا امارجوسا”
- French: “Désert d’Amargosa”
- Georgian: “ამარგოსის უდაბნო”
- Italian: “deserto di Amargosa”
- Italian: “Deserto di Amargosa”
- Lithuanian: “Amargosos dykuma”
- Malayalam: “അമർഗോസ മരുഭൂമി”
- Persian: “بیابان امرگوسا”
- Polish: “Pustynia Amargosa”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Amargosa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Amargosa Desert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Amargosa”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Amargosa”
- Ukrainian: “Амаргоса”
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Localities in the Area
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