The Lake Mead is 1936 a finished artificial lake of the Colorado river downward the Grand Canyon in the Black Canyon. It is to about 50 km southeast of read Vegas, because of the border of the US Federal States Arizona and Nevada.

The artificial lake

With a length of approx. 170 km, a depth of up to 180 m, a surface of 640 km and a pilot volume of maximally 34.9 billion m is he the largest artificially created sea of the United States. It is accumulated by the Hoover dam, because of whose building several municipalities had to be given up and evacuated. Among them the place pc. Thomas in Nevada, whose ruins are to be still seen with low water level of the Lake Mead.

Dam and artificial lake were put on as Trinkwasserspeicher for south California and the generation of current from water power made only the upswing possible of read Vegas.

The Lake Mead is designated after Elwood Mead, which was active as Commissioner from 1924 to 1936 in the U.S. office OF Reclamation, a subsection of the ministry of the Interior, and had responsibility for the Boulder Canyon Project, which led to building the Hoover dam.

Lake Mead national Recreation AREA

The Lake Mead is to Recreation AREA, a recovery and protected area in the center of the Lake Mead national under the administration of the US federal authority national park service.

A character

The protected area, whose protection status corresponds to that of a West German nature park after IUCN definition about, covers larger parts of the three deserts Mojave desert, large basin and Sonora desert, which turn into approximately around the Lake Mead into one another except the water surface.

Use

The Lake Mead is both local recreation area for the inhabitants of read Vegas and a goal of supraregional tourists and stood 2004 on place 3 of the daily numbers of visitors in all protected areas under federal administration.

The most important use of the Lake Mead NRA insists in boat trips by commercial offerers, motorboats rented on for short routes or renting of houseboats with overnight accomodation on the water. Besides stand fishing rods and bathing, as well as migrations in the surrounding deserts.

The park is predominantly adjusted to daily visitors, therefore there are no accommodations in the park and only very few except the houseboats and several camping sites in the direct environment.

Education program

By the proximity too read Vegas reach the educational provisions the park Ranger many schools, in particular primary schools. In short lectures and excursion ions plants and animals, ecological connections and bases of the nature protection are arranged for the children.

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