Badwater Basin topographic map
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Name: Badwater Basin topographic map, elevation, terrain.
Location: Badwater Basin, Inyo County, California, United States (36.22999 -116.76767 36.23055 -116.76716)
Average elevation: 499 ft
Minimum elevation: -276 ft
Maximum elevation: 2,999 ft
The pool is not the lowest point of the basin: the lowest point (which is only slightly lower) is several miles to the west and varies in position, depending on rainfall and evaporation patterns. The salt flats are hazardous to traverse (in many cases being only a thin white crust over mud), and so the sign marking the low point is at the pool instead. The basin was considered the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere until the discovery of Laguna del Carbón in Argentina at −344 ft (−105 m).
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