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Owens ValleyNatural SettingThe Owens Valley is the westernmost of the more than 150 desert basins which, together with the more than 160 discontinuous subparallel mountain ranges that separate them, form the Great Basin section of the Basin and Range Province of the western United States. Owens Valley is commonly defined as the narrow northwest/southeast trending trough bounded by the towering Sierra Nevada on the west, the White-Inyo Range on the east and extending northward from the Coso Range south of Owens Lake for more than 100 miles to the great bend in the Owens River northwest of Laws, California. The average elevation of the valley floor is approximately 3,700 feet. The valley includes the area drained by Owens River and its tributaries, and it contains two smaller topographic depressions, Long and Round Valleys. [25]MANZANAR Historic Resource Study/Special History Study GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF OWENS VALLEY Alabama HillsBig Pine Bishop Bristlecone Pine Forest Cartago Cerro Gordo Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns Darwin Dirty Sock Springs Dolomite Fossil Falls Fossil Falls Independence Keeler Keeler Cemetery Keeler Smelter Little Lake Lone Pine, Ca. Olancha Dunes Owens Lake Swansea Owens Valley HistoryOwens Lake SteamersCulturalOwens Valley PaiuteThe Owens Valley Paiute belong to an extensive group known generically as the Northern Paiute (in western Nevada as the Paviotso), which extends through ...EcologicalOwens ValleyInyo MountainsCoso & Argus RangesTransportationHighway 395Highway 190Trip GuidesFor the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley |
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