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  2. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre (40 ha) zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952. Located just west of Tucson, Arizona , it features two miles (3.2 km) of walking paths traversing 21 acres (8.5 ha) of desert landscape.

  3. List of museums in Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Tucson: Pima: Southern: Natural history: Combined zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, features plants, animals, minerals and fossils of the Sonoran Desert: Arizona State Museum: Tucson: Pima: Southern: Ethnic – Native American: Includes Southwest Indian pottery, artifacts, exhibits of religion and ...

  4. Mission Garden - Wikipedia

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    Mission Garden is a living agricultural museum near Sentinel Peak in Tucson, Arizona. Its adobe walls enclose four acres of heritage crops and heirloom trees that represent people who have lived in the Sonoran Desert over the past 4,000 years.

  5. Tohono Chul Park - Wikipedia

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    The words "tohono chul" translate as "desert corner" and are borrowed from the language of the Tohono O’odham, the indigenous people of southern Arizona. The mission of Tohono Chul is to connect people with the nature, art and culture of the Sonoran Desert region and to "inspir[e] wise stewardship of the natural world". [citation needed]

  6. Ironwood Forest National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Ironwood Forest National Monument is located in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Created by Bill Clinton by Presidential Proclamation 7320 on June 9, 2000, the monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management , an agency within the United States Department of the Interior .

  7. Tucson Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Tucson Mountain District of Saguaro National Park ranges from an elevation of 2,180 to 4,687 ft (664 to 1,429 m) and contains 2 biotic communities, desert scrub, and desert grassland. Average annual precipitation is approximately 10.27 in (26.1 cm). Common wildlife include the coyote, Gambel's quail, and desert tortoise. [4]

  8. McDowell Sonoran Conservancy - Wikipedia

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    The McDowell Sonoran Preserve is the largest urban preserve in the U.S. (List of urban parks by size), located within the city limits of Scottsdale, Arizona. It encompasses more than 30,580-acre (12,380 ha) of upper Sonoran Desert, including large portions of the McDowell Mountains.

  9. Kitt Peak National Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, 88 kilometers (55 mi) west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona.

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