MOJAVE DESERT

Mojave Desert

Desert in the southwest United States, occupies a significant portion of southern California, southwestern Utah, southern Nevada and northwest Arizona are the hottest and the second largest in North America. Before the Great War of Las Vegas was the largest oasis of civilization in the Mojave, and the New Las Vegas (New Vegas) supports this reputation. This area escaped the impact of nuclear weapons, so it is almost not radioactive in comparison with other territories.

In the early twentieth century, the largest desert in the west coast of the United States, Mojave Desert, was the gateway to one of the world's richest states considered today, California. The Mojave Desert in late 1800 was famous for its mines, where they found gold and silver, also built the town of Calico, that the depletion of these minerals, the city was absolutely deserted. In the early twentieth century, there appeared the so-called "desert lovers, one of them was Death Valley, who spent his life in a castle, built in the 20 of the said century.

Today thousands of tourists come to visit the castle, which gives its name to its bow. The best attraction of the desert no doubt is its sun. Las Vegas is very close to the Mojave Desert. Mojave Desert, it is sometimes called the "Sahara of the New World", is the area of 30 thousand square kilo meters. Mojave occupies the southern part of Nevada, southeastern California and western Arizona. Mojave is a desert plain, which lies at altitudes of 600-1000 m with alternating separate low mountain ranges. The Mojave Desert is notable that there is Death Valley. This narrow northern part of the desert also known as earthly hell. Death Valley is 8 thousand square meters and is located mainly in California and partly in Nevada. The Indians called this land "Burning Ground". From June to October, the earth in Death Valley ...