Badwater Basin in Death Valley

• An ephemeral lake is a temporary body of water that appears and disappears based on specific conditions.
• These lakes are often associated with arid or desert regions, where rainfall is infrequent.

Death Valley

• Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert.
• It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer.
• Death Valley is home to the Timbisha tribe of Native Americans, who have inhabited the valley for at least the past millennium.
• Death Valley is a graben, a downdropped block of land between two mountain ranges.