The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. Its boundaries vary depending on how it is defined, but it is most commonly defined as the contiguous endorheic basin roughly between the Wasatch Mountains and the Sierra Nevada mountains. Culturally, the Great Basin is home to several Shoshonean Great Basin tribes. Geologically, the Great Basin is part of the Basin and Range Province.
The Great Basin Desert is a desert defined...
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The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. Its boundaries vary depending on how it is defined, but it is most commonly defined as the contiguous endorheic basin roughly between the Wasatch Mountains and the Sierra Nevada mountains. Culturally, the Great Basin is home to several Shoshonean Great Basin tribes. Geologically, the Great Basin is part of the Basin and Range Province.
The Great Basin Desert is a desert defined by the extent of characteristic plant species, and covers a somewhat different (and smaller) area.
The 200,000 square mile (520,000 km) intermontane plateau covers most of Nevada and over half of Utah, as well as parts of California, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming. The Great Basin is not a single basin, but rather a series of contiguous watersheds, bounded on the west by watersheds of the Sacramento-San Joaquin and Klamath rivers, on the north by the watershed of the Columbia-Snake, and on the south and east by the watershed of the Colorado-Green....
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