Owens Valley (Mono: Payahǖǖnadǖ, meaning "place of flowing water") is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States. It is located to the east of the Sierra Nevada, west of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains, and is split between the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert. [2]

It drains into and through the Owens Valley, an arid basin between the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and the western faces of the Inyo and White Mountains. The river terminates at the endorheic Owens Lake south of Lone Pine, at the bottom of a …

欧文斯谷（英語： Owens Valley ）是美国 加利福尼亚州东部 （ 英语 ： eastern California ） 欧文斯河 （ 英语 ： Owens River ） 气候干旱的河谷，位于內華達山脈以东、 白山山脉 （ 英语 ： White Mountains (California) ） 和 因约山脉 （ 英语 ： Inyo Mountains ） 以西、大盆地的 ...

For about the first 6.5-miles of its origin, the Owens River and its two nearby tributaries, Glass and Deadman Creeks, hold the designation of Wild & Scenic River System. This river, although relatively short at 183 miles, compared to the major rivers …

Owens River, river, eastern California, U.S. Located in Mono and Inyo counties, it rises in the Sierra Nevada southeast of Yosemite National Park and flows about 120 miles (200 km) generally west-southwest to Owens Lake (now dry). The river was among the first (1913) to be diverted to provide water to the city of Los Angeles.

2018年12月20日 · The hydrologic system of the Owens Valley can be conceptualized as having three parts: (1) an unsaturated zone affected by precipitation and evapotranspiration; (2) a surface-water system composed of the Owens River, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, tributary streams, canals, ditches, and ponds; and (3) a saturated ground-water system contained in the ...

2014年9月15日 · The Owens Valley in eastern California helped transform distant Los Angeles into today’s sprawling megalopolis. More than 100 years ago, Los Angeles recognized the need to augment local water supplies and decided to tap faraway sources.

The Owens River is famous the world over for its unique place in history as the lifeblood of both the Owens Valley and the City of Los Angeles. It was the diversion of its water to the great metropolis through the LA Aqueduct in 1913 that allowed that city to grow from just 100,000 people in 1900 to 1.2 million just 30 years later.

2024年12月22日 · Owens Valley, the largest except for the Imperial Valley of the Great Basin region, is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California. The valley occupies what is known as a fault block valley, which is between the rugged Sierra to the west, and the Inyo- White Mountain Range to the east.

The Owens River, although relatively short at 183 miles, compared to the major rivers of the USA, has a long and legendary history. It flows through two of the major valleys of the southwestern Great Basin, Long Valley and the Owens Valley ending in the closed basin of the Owens Lake which is now largely dry.