Fondo: Niland
Niland lies in California’s Imperial Valley near the Salton Sea, a level desert basin where irrigated farmland, transport routes and utility corridors cross the open terrain. Agriculture here depends on Colorado River water conveyed to the valley by the All-American Canal, turning a naturally arid part of southeastern California into productive cropland. Niland stands within a sparsely settled area shaped by the railroad and agricultural economy. Nearby, Salvation Mountain is Leonard Knight’s hand-built folk-art environment of adobe, straw and paint; it has become one of the Imperial Valley’s most recognizable cultural landmarks. The community also sits close to Slab City, an unconventional settlement on the site of the former Camp Dunlap military base.
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