Amargosa is the Spanish name of the plant ''
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 sma ...
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Western United States
Animals
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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 end ...
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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 exacerba ...
Natural geography
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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.
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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 ...
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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, int ...
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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." ...
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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. , Nevada
Populated places and buildings
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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 origina ...
, a community within the Amargosa Desert/Valley
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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 ...
, formerly named Amargosa
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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 t ...
in Death Valley Junction, California
Brazil
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Amargosa, Brazil
Amargosa is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.
Banks
The city currently has three banking branches: Banco do Brasil, Caixa Econômica, and Bradesco. There are also two lottery shops and a post office.
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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 ...
, in Brazil
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