Amargosa Nitewort
Amargosa is the Spanish name of the plant ''Centaurium erythraea''. It may also refer to: Western United States Animals *Amargosa toad *Amargosa vole Natural geography *Amargosa Desert *Amargosa Range *Amargosa River **Amargosa River Area of Critical Environmental Concern and Wild and Scenic River *Amargosa Valley *Amargosa Pupfish Station, Nevada Populated places and buildings *Amargosa Valley, Nevada, a community within the Amargosa Desert/Valley * Death Valley Junction, California, formerly named Amargosa **Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley Junction, California Brazil *Amargosa, Brazil **Roman Catholic Diocese of Amargosa The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amargosa ( la, Dioecesis Amargosensis) is a diocese located in the city of Amargosa, Brazil, Amargosa in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia, São Salvador da Bahia in ...

Centaurium Erythraea
''Centaurium erythraea'' is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family known by the common names common centaury and European centaury. Description This is an erect biennial herb which reaches half a meter in height. It grows from a small basal rosette and bolts a leafy, erect stem which may branch. The triangular leaves are arranged oppositely on the stem and the erect inflorescences emerge from the stem and grow parallel to it, sometimes tangling with the foliage. Each inflorescence may contain many flowers. The petite flower is pinkish-lavender and about a centimeter across, flat-faced with yellow anthers. The fruit is a cylindrical capsule. It flowers from June until September. Distribution This centaury is a widespread plant of Europe (including Scotland, Sweden and Mediterranean countries) and parts of western Asia and northern Africa. It has also naturalised in parts of North America, New Zealand, and eastern Australia, where it is an introduced species. Taxono ...
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Amargosa Toad
The Amargosa toad (''Anaxyrus nelsoni'') is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It was at one time considered to be a subspecies of the western toad. It is threatened by habitat loss and is classified by the IUCN as being "Critically endangered". Etymology The specific name ''nelsoni'' honors Edward William Nelson, an American naturalist and ethnologist. Distribution and habitat The Amargosa toad is endemic to the Oasis Valley in the Amargosa Desert in Nye County, Nevada, United States. Its natural habitat is along a 10-mile (16 kilometre) stretch of the Amargosa River in the Oasis Valley between Springdale and Beatty, in tributary springs and in nearby isolated springs. The riverside growth consists of cottonwoods, sedges and cattails and breeding takes place in the springs where there is often little aquatic vegetation. Status The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the status of the Amargosa toad as being "critically endangered". Factors ...
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Amargosa Vole
The Amargosa vole (''Microtus californicus scirpensis'') is one of 17 subspecies of the California vole (''M. californicus''). The most closely related subspecies is ''M. californicus vallicola''.Neuwald, J. L. 2010. Population isolation exacerbates conservation genetic concerns in the endangered Amargosa vole, ''Microtus californicus scirpensis''. Biological Conservation 143: 2028-2038. Description The Amargosa vole is recognized by the characteristic long, low profile of all voles. It has gray feet and whiskers, and its back is covered by dark, blackish fur. This subspecies has a bicolored tail that exhibits black on the top and gray on the underside.Cudworth, N. L., and J. L. Koprowski. 2010''Microtus californicus'' (Rodentia: Cricetidae).Mammalian Species 42: 230-243. They are a sexually dimorphic species, in which the males are longer and heavier than the females of the subspecies. The dental formula of Amargosa voles is , meaning there is one incisor in each of the upper ...
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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. The desert is named after the Amargosa River, which was named after the Spanish word for bitter because of the bitter taste of the water. Geography The Amargosa Desert lies at an elevation of about , and includes Crater Flat and the community of Amargosa Valley, Nevada, (formerly Lathrop Wells), which lies at the southern end of the desert. The desert lies between the Funeral Mountains and Death Valley to the west, and Yucca Mountain and the Nellis Air Force Range to the east. Natural history The Amargosa Desert is an arid desert habitat and an ecotone between the northern Great Basin and southern Mojave Desert ecosystems and biogeography regions. The seasonal Amargosa River course runs through the desert, with the rare Shoshone pupfish ...
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Amargosa Range
The Amargosa Range is a mountain range in Inyo County, California and Nye County, Nevada. The range runs along most of the eastern side of California's Death Valley, separating it from Nevada's Amargosa Desert. The U-shaped Amargosa River flows clockwise around the perimeter of the range, ending below sea level in the Badwater Basin. The mountain range is named after the Amargosa River, so-named for the Spanish word for bitter because of the bitter taste of the water. In order from north to south, the Grapevine Mountains (including the range's highest point, Grapevine Peak), the Funeral Mountains, and the Black Mountains form distinct sections. Many of Death Valley National Park's most well-known features, such as Zabriskie Point Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 m ...
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Amargosa River
The Amargosa River is an intermittent waterway, 185 miles (298 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It drains a high desert region, the Amargosa Valley in the Amargosa Desert northwest of Las Vegas, into the Mojave Desert, and finally into Death Valley where it disappears into the ground aquifer. Except for a small portion of its route in the Amargosa Canyon in California and a small portion at Beatty, Nevada, the river flows above ground only after a rare rainstorm washes the region. A 26-mile (42 km) stretch of the river between Shoshone and Dumont Dunes is protected as a National Wild and Scenic River. At the south end of Tecopa Valley the Amargosa River Natural Area protects the habitat. Course Except during flash floods that occur after cloudbursts, most of the course of the Amargosa River is dry on the surface. The flow is generally underground except for stretches near Beatty and near Tecopa, California, in the Amargosa Ca ...
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Amargosa River Area Of Critical Environmental Concern And Wild And Scenic River
Amargosa is the Spanish name of the plant ''Centaurium erythraea''. It may also refer to: Western United States Animals * Amargosa toad * Amargosa vole Natural geography *Amargosa Desert *Amargosa Range *Amargosa River ** Amargosa River Area of Critical Environmental Concern and Wild and Scenic River *Amargosa Valley *Amargosa Pupfish Station, Nevada Populated places and buildings *Amargosa Valley, Nevada, a community within the Amargosa Desert/Valley * Death Valley Junction, California, formerly named Amargosa **Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley Junction, California Brazil *Amargosa, Brazil **Roman Catholic Diocese of Amargosa The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amargosa ( la, Dioecesis Amargosensis) is a diocese located in the city of Amargosa, Brazil, Amargosa in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia, São Salvador da Bahia in ...

Amargosa Valley
The Amargosa Valley is the valley through which the Amargosa River flows south, in Nye County, southwestern Nevada and Inyo County in the state of California. The south end is alternately called the "Amargosa River Valley'" or the "Tecopa Valley." Its northernmost point is around Beatty, Nevada and southernmost is Tecopa, California, where the Amargosa River enters into the Amargosa Canyon. Geography The Amargosa Valley ("the Valley") is located within the Basin and Range Province ("the Province") which is characterized by abrupt changes in elevation, alternating between narrow faulted mountain chains and flat arid valleys or basins. As is typical of the Province, the Valley is long from north to south and narrow from east to west. It lies to the east of Death Valley, separated from it by the Amargosa Range and Funeral Mountains. The Valley lies within the Mohave Desert region of the Province. The more narrowly bounded Amargosa Desert forms the eastern portion of the Valley. H ...
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Amargosa Pupfish Station
The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge located in the Amargosa Valley of southern Nye County, in southwestern Nevada. It is directly east of Death Valley National Park, and is west-northwest of Las Vegas.Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
The refuge was created on June 18, 1984, to protect an extremely rare desert in the . It is administered by the

Amargosa Valley, Nevada
Amargosa Valley (formerly Lathrop Wells) is an unincorporated town located on U.S. Route 95 in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Description The community is named after the Amargosa River which flows through the valley from its origination in Nevada to its terminus in Death Valley, California. Like most desert rivers, the long Amargosa flows on the surface only when rare rainfalls flood the desert washes, except for a segment near Shoshone, California, where the river flows perennially. The name Amargosa Valley is used locally with reference to the actual geographic valley, although for the most part, it is coincident with the Amargosa Desert and is noted as such on many maps. The populated area of the Amargosa Valley is sandwiched between US 95 to the north and the California border to the south. Some of the residential streets in the community cross over into California. Much of the Nevada-California border in this area is contiguous with the boundaries of Death Va ...
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Death Valley Junction, California
Death Valley Junction, more commonly known as Amargosa (Spanish for "Bitter"), is a tiny Mojave Desert unincorporated community in Inyo County, California, at the intersection of SR 190 and SR 127, in the Amargosa Valley and just east of Death Valley National Park. The zip code is 92328, the elevation is , and the population is fewer than four people. Death Valley Junction is home to the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, where resident Marta Becket staged dance and mime shows from the late 1960s until her last show in February 2012. Becket died in 2017. The hotel is still operating next to the opera house, but beyond these maintained areas, the town is in a state of disrepair. There is no gas station, and only one restaurant, the Amargosa Cafe. The town is owned by the non-profit Amargosa Opera House Inc. which runs the Opera House, Hotel, and cafe The community's location, east-southeast of Furnace Creek, on the east side of Death Valley is south of Nevada's Amargosa Valle ...
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Amargosa Opera House And Hotel
Amargosa Opera House and Hotel is a historic building and cultural center located in Death Valley Junction, in eastern Inyo County, California near Death Valley National Park. Resident artist Marta Becket staged dance and mime shows there from the late 1960s until her final show in February 2012. The Death Valley Junction Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the nonprofit established by Becket for the preservation of the property. The theater was part of a company town designed by architect Alexander Hamilton McCulloch and constructed in 1923–25 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company. The U-shaped complex of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style adobe buildings included company offices, employees' headquarters, a dormitory and a 23-room hotel with a dining room, lobby and store. At the northeast end of the complex was a recreation hall used as a community center for dances, church services, movies, funerals and town meetings.
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