Like Caspian Sea, Dead Sea , also called the Sea of Salt is really not the sea, but actually it's just a lake located on the border between the two countries, the east with Jordan and Israel to the west.
With the water level of 400 m below sea level, this is the deepest place on Earth. This leads to the concentration of mineral salt on the bottom of it, increasing salt levels to 27%, 9 times times the average salinity of the lake to another.
This salinity makes the Dead Sea became a harsh environment, aquatic life and hardly any organism can live here, therefore the biodiversity here is extremely poor.
Dead Sea water is mainly supplied from the river Jordan. It's no runoff, and evaporation rates are particularly high (high temperature, low humidity), is the birthplace of a large amount of raw chemicals used in medicine, agriculture and industry throughout world and supplies various products like myrrh for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers.
Dead Sea charismatic and special guests from the area around the Mediterranean for thousands of years. It is the hiding place of King David, and is considered to be the first resort in the world of Herod the Great (king of ancient Palestine).
With a dry climate and high temperatures throughout the year (the highest temperature is 30 degrees Celsius in winter and 40 ° C in summer), the Dead Sea is actually an ideal destination for tourists during 365 days in year.
It was by its salinity that visitors can easily float on water even when not swim. In addition, the Dead Sea is considered as one of the holiday resorts to cure and medical research ideal world, because it converges so many great elements as seawater composition contains a lot of minerals, not fresh air, rare bacteria, pollen, and other allergens effects, atmospheric pressure is higher at this depth.
author: Thucuc
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