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.Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: 24/7
- Type: Scenic viewpoint
- Description: endorheic basin in Death Valley, noted as the lowest point in North America
- Address: Badwater road, Death Valley National Park, CA 92328
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Badwater Pool.
Badwater Pool
Photo: NChiker2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Badwater Pool is situated 1 mile east 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 Basin
- Categories: depression, endorheic basin, and tourism
- Location: Inyo County, Desert, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.23091° or 36° 13′ 51″ northLongitude
-116.78471° or 116° 47′ 5″ westElevation
-259 feet (-79 metres)Open location code
858566J8+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 14030855046OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=viewpointWikidata ID
Q799720
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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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lake Manly and Badwater Basin.
Nearby Places
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