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The solar garden consists of twenty-four photo-voltaic energy panels that produce 3,600 watts of power that is directed to the City of Yuma electrical grid and provides power in the park. It produces enough energy to power approximately twenty homes. The output of a single tracker is displayed in the armada in front of the solar garden.
William Boyce Thompson, circa 1928. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869–1930), a mining engineer who made a fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona.
From 1864, the Yuma Quartermaster Depot, today a state historic park, supplied all forts in present-day Arizona, as well as large parts of Colorado and New Mexico. After Arizona became a separate territory, Yuma became the county seat for Yuma County in 1871, replacing La Paz County, the first seat. Arizona City was renamed Yuma in 1873.
The park is the only place in the United States where the senita and organ pipe cactus grow wild. [citation needed] Along with this species, many other types of cacti and other desert flora native to the Yuma Desert section of the Sonoran Desert region grow in the park. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is 517 sq mi (1,340 km 2) in size.
Yuma station (Arizona) Yuma City Hall; Yuma County Courthouse; Yuma County Library District; Yuma Desalting Plant; Yuma High School; Yuma Regional Medical Center; Yuma station (Southern Pacific Railroad) Yuma Territorial Prison
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The Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden was a non-profit botanical garden, located at 8 Cactus Lane, Bisbee, Arizona, United States, containing representative samples of over 800 varieties of high desert xerophyte plant life. [1] [2] It was founded by David L. Eppele [3] and has been closed since his death on 19 May 2005. [4]
Cactus garden in La Aldea de San Nicolás, Gran Canaria. A cactarium or cactuario (from Latin, cactarium) is a garden dedicated to the planting of cacti.While they generally specialize in collecting cacti, they can also include other desert plants such as sabla, agaves or Crassulaceae, although this would better be termed "xeriscaping".