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Saguaro "forest".
Photo by Ken Bosma

Saguaro National Park

Saguaro National Park is located in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, one of four major desert types in the United States. Like Joshua Tree National Park, this park is named for the most prominant plant in the park, the Saguaro Cactus.

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Surrounding Tucson, Arizona [32.1^oN, 110.7^oW]

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Sources:

National Park Service
Friends of Saguaro National Park
Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum - within the western unit of the park
Park Vision
GORP
Desert USA
American Southwest
Desert Ecology - University of Edinburgh
Saguaro Cactus
- PLANTS Database: [HTML] and [PDF]
- GORP Page
Bats
- Tuttle, M.D. "Bats: The Cactus Connection." National Geograhic. Vol. 179, No. 6, p. 131. June, 1991.
- Lesser Long-Nosed Bat (Leptonycteris curasoae)
Conniff, R. "The Sonoran Desert." National Geographic. Vol. 186, No. 3, p. 2. September, 1994.

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