The Ivanpah Valley is in southeastern California and southern Nevada in the United States. The valley is between the New York Mountains and the

Ivanpah Mountains The Ivanpah Mountains are located in the southeastern Mojave Desert of California in the United States. The range lies to the south and east of the Mescal Range and Clark Mountain Range. Paute Valley lies between the Ivanpahs and the Mescal Range ...

in San Bernardino County on the California side, and in Clark County on the Nevada side. The communities of

Cima, California Cima ( Spanish for "Summit") is a small unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in the United States. It lies in a mountain pass on the divide between the Ivanpah Valley and the Mojave River basi ...

; Nipton, California; Jean, Nevada; and Primm, Nevada are in the valley. The Ivanpah Dry Lake, a popular place for

land sailing Land sailing, also known as sand yachting, land yachting or dirtboating, is the act of moving across land in a wheeled vehicle powered by wind through the use of a sail. The term comes from analogy with (water) sailing. Historically, land saili ...

, and the site of the proposed

Ivanpah Valley Airport Ivanpah Valley Airport is a planned government relief airport for Harry Reid International Airport in the Las Vegas Valley, to be located in the Ivanpah Valley of the Mojave Desert, within Clark County, Nevada. Since there is only limited space ...

also lie in the valley. The headwaters of the valley lie in the south and southeast in the north of the Mojave National Preserve; the southeast of the valley is a

water divide A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a singl ...

point at the south of the McCullough Range, with four valleys, and four mountain ranges. (The Piute Valley drains southeast into the Colorado River; the

Eldorado Valley Eldorado Valley, or El Dorado Valley, is a Great Basin valley in the Mojave Desert southeast of Las Vegas and southwest of Boulder City, Nevada. The valley is endorheic, containing the Eldorado Dry Lake. The Great Basin Divide, transects ridgelines ...

northeast is endorheic.)

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Mojave National Preserve Valleys of the Mojave Desert Valleys of Nevada Valleys of San Bernardino County, California Valleys of California Valleys of Clark County, Nevada {{ClarkCountyNV-geo-stub

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