Great Basin (disambiguation)

Great Basin may refer to:

Places

• Great Artesian Basin (Australia), a source of inland freshwater
• Great Basin (Maine), a drainage basin in Piscataquis County, Maine
• Great Basin (western United States & Mexico), the largest North American endorheic watershed

Geographic areas associated with the Great Basin in western North America include:

• Great Basin Divide, the encompassing continental divide that demarcates the Great Basin from the Pacific watershed
• Great Basin Desert, a biologically defined desert
• Great Basin National Park, a protected area in White Pine County, Nevada
• Great Basin section, the physiographic region much smaller than the Great Basin but which extends into the Pacific watershed
• Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin area, the cultural range of historic indigenous people much larger than the Great Basin
• Ecological areas of the Great Basin:

• Great Basin floristic province, an area that contains similar flora
• Great Basin montane forest, a montane forest ecoregion defined by the World Wildlife Fund
• Great Basin shrub steppe, a sagebrush steppe WWF ecoregion

• Great Basin Highway, U.S. Route 93 in Nevada

Fauna and flora

• Pinus longaeva (Great Basin Bristlecone Pine)
• Great Basin pocket mouse
• Great Basin rattlesnake
• Great Basin spadefoot
• Great Basin wildrye

Other

• Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (Great Basin Anthropology), a topic of a regional journal published by the Malki Museum Press
• Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, a research organization of the University of Nevada
• Great Basin College, a state college at Elko, Nevada

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