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Saguaro National Park
near TucsonArizona
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The park was established as Saguaro National Monument on March 1, 1933 and changed to a national park on October 14, 1994. The total area of Saguaro National Park in 2002 was 143 square miles (370 kmē) of which 111 square miles (289 kmē) is wilderness.
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- Saguaro National Park is divided into two sections, lying approximately 20 miles (32 km) east and 15 miles (24 km) west of the center of the city of Tucson, Arizona.
- The park was established as Saguaro National Monument on March 1, 1933 and changed to a national park on October 14, 1994.
- The Saguaro, pronounced "suh-wah-roh", (Carnegiea gigantea) is a large, tree-sized cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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