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  • .az.us – Internet
    Internet
    The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

     second-level domain
    Second-level domain
    In the Domain Name System hierarchy, a second-level domain is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain . For example, in example.com, example is the second-level domain of the .com TLD....

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  • 4 Corners
    • 4 Corners Monument
      Four Corners Monument
      The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to this area being called the Four Corners region...

  • 4 Peaks
    Four Peaks
    Four Peaks , at in altitude, is a prominent landmark on the eastern skyline of Phoenix, part of the Mazatzal Mountains. It is located in the Tonto National Forest east-northeast of Phoenix, in the Four Peaks Wilderness...

  • 7-Eleven
    7-Eleven
    7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co...

  • 32nd meridian west from Washington
    32nd meridian west from Washington
    The 32nd meridian of longitude west from Washington is a line of longitude approximately 109°02′48″ west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich. In the United States of America, the meridian 32 degrees west of the Washington Meridian defines the western boundaries of the State of Colorado and the...

  • 32nd parallel north
    32nd parallel north
    The 32nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 32 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean....

  • 33rd parallel north
    33rd parallel north
    The 33rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 33 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean....

  • 34th parallel north
    34th parallel north
    The 34th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 34 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean....

  • 35th parallel north
    35th parallel north
    The 35th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 35 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean....

  • 36th parallel north
    36th parallel north
    The 36th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean....

  • 37 Geminorum
  • 37th meridian west from Washington
  • 37th parallel north
    37th parallel north
    The 37th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 37 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean....

  • 48th State to join the United States of America
  • 50 State Quarters
    50 State Quarters
    The 50 State Quarters program is the release of a series of circulating commemorative coins by the United States Mint. Between 1999 and 2008, it featured each of the 50 U.S. states on unique designs for the reverse of the quarter....

  • 110th meridian west
    110th meridian west
    The meridian 110° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....

  • 111th meridian west
    111th meridian west
    The meridian 111° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....

  • 112th meridian west
    112th meridian west
    The meridian 112° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....

  • 113th meridian west
    113th meridian west
    The meridian 113° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....

  • 114th meridian west
    114th meridian west
    The meridian 114° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....


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  • Abert's Squirrel
    Abert's Squirrel
    Abert's squirrel is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to the Rocky Mountains from United States to Mexico, with concentrations found in Arizona, The Grand Canyon, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.-Etymology:The Abert's squirrel is named after Colonel John James Abert, an American...

  • Acacia greggii
    Acacia greggii
    Acacia greggii is a species of Acacia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in...

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  • Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center
    Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center
    The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group , often called The Boneyard, is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base...

  • Africanized bee
    Africanized bee
    Africanized honey bees, known colloquially as "killer bees", are a hybrid variety of the European honeybee , generated by a man-made breeding of the African honey bee, A. m. scutellata, with various European honey bees such as the Italian bee A. m. ligustica and A. m. iberiensis. These bees are far...

  • Agave deserti
    Agave deserti
    Agave deserti is an agave native to desert regions in southern California, Arizona, and Baja California...

  • Agriculture in Arizona
  • All-American Canal
    All-American Canal
    The All-American Canal is an long aqueduct, located in southeastern California. It conveys water from the Colorado River into the Imperial Valley and to nine cities. It is the Imperial Valley's only water source, and replaced the Alamo Canal, which was located mostly in Mexico...

  • American Old West
    American Old West
    The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

  • Amusement parks in Arizona
  • Anasazi
  • Araucarioxylon arizonicum
    Araucarioxylon arizonicum
    Araucarioxylon arizonicum is an extinct species of conifer that is the state fossil of Arizona. The species is known from massive tree trunks that weather out of the Chinle Formation in desert badlands of northern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico, most notably in the Petrified Forest National Park...

  • Arboreta in Arizona
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  • Archaeology of Arizona
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  • Architecture of Arizona
  • Arcosanti
    Arcosanti
    Arcosanti is an experimental town that began construction in 1970 in central Arizona, north of Phoenix, at an elevation of 3,732 feet...

  • Area codes in Arizona
  • Arizona
    Arizona
    Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

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  • Arizona (genus)
  • Arizona Bark Scorpion
    Arizona bark scorpion
    The Arizona bark scorpion , is a small light brown scorpion common to the southwest United States. The range of the scorpion is the Sonoran Desert...

  • Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden
    Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden
    The Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden was a non-profit botanical garden, located at 8 Cactus Lane, Bisbee, Arizona, USA, containing representative samples of over 800 varieties of high desert plant life. It was founded by David Eppele and has been closed since his death on 19 May 2005.The Garden...

  • Arizona Canal
    Arizona Canal
    The Arizona Canal is a major canal in central Maricopa County that led to the founding of several communities, now among the wealthier neighborhoods of suburban Phoenix, in the late 1880s. Flood irrigation of residential yards is still common in these neighborhoods, using a system of lateral...

  • Arizona Cardinals
    Arizona Cardinals
    The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

  • Arizona Desert Centipede
    Arizona desert centipede
    Scolopendra heros is a species of centipede found in North America.-Description:S. heros has an average length of , but can reach up to . Its trunk bears 21 or 23 pairs of legs. It is aposematically colored, to warn off potential predators, and a number of color variants are known in the...

  • Arizona Cypress
    Cupressus arizonica
    Cupressus arizonica, the Arizona Cypress, is a species of cypress native to the southwest of North America, in the United States in Arizona, southwest New Mexico, southern California, and the Chisos Mountains of west Texas, and in Mexico in Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas and...

  • Arizona Department of Public Safety
    Arizona Department of Public Safety
    Arizona Department of Public Safety is a law enforcement agency with its usual focus being protection of all Arizona highways. The current Director is Robert C. Halliday, a previously retired DPS commander, who began his 5-year term in February 2010...

  • Arizona Department of Transportation
    Arizona Department of Transportation
    The Arizona Department of Transportation is an Arizona state government agency charged with facilitating mobility within the state. In addition to managing the state's highway system, the agency is also involved with public transportation and municipal airports...

  • Arizona Diamondbacks
    Arizona Diamondbacks
    The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...

  • Arizona Firecracker
    Ipomopsis arizonica
    Ipomopsis arizonica is a flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the mountains of the Mojave Desert sky islands from southeastern California east through southern Nevada to northern Arizona, growing at 1500-3100 meters altitude...

  • Arizona Game and Fish Department
    Arizona Game and Fish Department
    The Arizona Game and Fish Department is a state agency of Arizona, headquartered in Phoenix. The agency is tasked with conserving, enhancing, and restoring Arizona's diverse wildlife resources and habitats through aggressive protection and management programs...

  • Arizona Highways (magazine)
    Arizona Highways (magazine)
    Arizona Highways is a magazine that contains travelogues and artistic photographs related to the state of Arizona. It is published monthly in Phoenix by a unit of the Arizona Department of Transportation....

  • Arizona Rattlers
    Arizona Rattlers
    The Arizona Rattlers are a professional arena football team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Conference in the Arena Football League . The Rattlers were founded in 1992 as an expansion team. They play their home games at US Airways Center...


  • Arizona State Capitol
    Arizona State Capitol
    The Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, formerly housed the Territorial and State Legislatures, as well as various executive offices...

  • Arizona State Parks
  • Arizona State Route 66
  • Arizona State University
    Arizona State University
    Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

    • ASU School of Sustainability
      ASU School of Sustainability
      School of Sustainability is the first school in the United States dedicated to exploring the principles of sustainability. The school was established in 2007 at Arizona State University. It is located within Wrigley Hall, along with the Global Institute of Sustainability at the Arizona State...

  • Arizona Sting
    Arizona Sting
    The Arizona Sting was a member of the National Lacrosse League from 2004 to 2007. They played at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, from 2001 to 2003 as the Columbus Landsharks. On August 28, 2003, it was announced that the team was relocating to Glendale, Arizona...

  • Arizona Strip
    Arizona Strip
    The Arizona Strip is the part of the U.S. state of Arizona lying north of the Colorado River. The difficulty of crossing the Grand Canyon causes this region to have more natural connections with southern Utah and Nevada than with the rest of Arizona....

  • Arizona Territory
    Arizona Territory
    The Territory of Arizona was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when it was admitted to the Union as the 48th state....

  • Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
    Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
    The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a 14,870-seat multi-purpose indoor arena in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, located on the grounds of the Arizona State Fair...

  • Arizona Western College
    Arizona Western College
    Arizona Western College is a public community college located in Yuma, Arizona, United States. AWC offers classes in San Luis, Somerton, Marine Corp Air Station , Wellton, Dateland, and La Paz....

  • Arizona Woodpecker
    Arizona Woodpecker
    The Arizona Woodpecker is a woodpecker native to southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico...

  • Arizonasaurus
    Arizonasaurus
    Arizonasaurus was a ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic . Arizonasaurus is found in the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. A fairly complete skeleton was found in 2002 by Sterling Nesbitt. The taxon has a large sailback formed by elongate neural spines of the...

  • Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
    Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
    The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a museum and zoo founded in 1952 and located in Tucson, Arizona. It contains a museum and two miles of walking paths on of this property, and is one of the most visited attractions in Tucson...

  • Aspen Fire
    Aspen Fire
    The Aspen Fire burned from June 17, 2003 for about a month on Mount Lemmon, part of the Santa Catalina Mountains located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, and in the surrounding area...

  • Art museums and galleries in Arizona
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  • Astronomical observatories in Arizona
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  • AZ – United States Postal Service
    United States Postal Service
    The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...

     postal code for the State of Arizona

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  • Barringer Crater
  • Battle of Apache Pass
    Battle of Apache Pass
    The Battle of Apache Pass was fought in 1862 at Apache Pass, Arizona in the United States, between Apache warriors and the Union volunteers of the California Column as it marched from California to capture Confederate Arizona and to reinforce New Mexico's Union army...

  • Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
    Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
    The Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The jagged mountains and gently sloping alluvial plain of the Beaver Dam Mountains straddle the border between the two states...

  • Black Canyon of the Colorado
    Black Canyon of the Colorado
    The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado River at the state line between Nevada and Arizona. The western wall of the gorge is in the El Dorado Mountains, and the eastern wall is in the Black Mountains of...

  • Blythe Intaglios
    Blythe Intaglios
    The Blythe Intaglios or Blythe Geoglyphs are a group of gigantic figures found on the ground near Blythe, California in the Colorado Desert. The intaglios are found east of the Big Maria Mountains, about north of downtown Blythe, just west of U.S. Highway 95 near the Colorado River. The largest...

  • Bola tie
    Bola tie
    A bolo tie is a type of necktie consisting of a piece of cord or braided leather with decorative metal tips or aglets secured with an ornamental clasp or slide....

  • Botanical gardens in Arizona
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  • Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park
    Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park
    Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park is an arboretum and state park of Arizona, USA, located in Superior.-Description:Boyce Thompson Arboretum Park consists of a botanical collection that includes a wide range of habitats and a main loop walking trail. Founded in 1925, the arboretum is the...

  • Bright Angel Trail
    Bright Angel Trail
    The Bright Angel Trail is a hiking trail located in Grand Canyon National Park in the U.S. state of Arizona.-Access:The trail is accessed by the mule corral, as seen here:-Description:...

  • Buildings and structures in Arizona
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  • Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
    Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
    The Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep, is located along of the U.S.-Mexico border, and covers 860,010 acres — larger than the land area of the state...

  • Camelback Mountain
    Camelback Mountain
    Camelback Mountain is a mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The name is derived from its shape, which resembles the hump and head of a kneeling camel. The mountain, a prominent landmark for the metropolitan Phoenix valley, is located in the Camelback Mountain Echo Canyon Recreation Area...

  • Canada del Oro
    Cañada del Oro
    The Cañada del Oro , is a primary watershed channel in the valley of Tucson, Arizona, USA. The word cañada has a tilde and is pronounced in Spanish; in English it is pronounced , not like the country of Canada....

  • Canyon de Chelly National Monument
    Canyon de Chelly National Monument
    Canyon de Chelly National Monument was established on April 1, 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service. It is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation...

  • Canyons and gorges of Arizona
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  • Capital of the State of Arizona
    Phoenix, Arizona
    Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

  • Capitol of the State of Arizona
    Arizona State Capitol
    The Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, formerly housed the Territorial and State Legislatures, as well as various executive offices...

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  • Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
    Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
    Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, in Coolidge, Arizona, just northeast of the city of Casa Grande, preserves a group of Ancient Pueblo Peoples Hohokam structures of the Pueblo III and Pueblo IV Eras.-Ancient pueblos:...

  • Casinos in Arizona
  • Catalina Highway
    Catalina Highway
    The Catalina Highway, officially the General Hitchcock Highway, is the popular name for a Forest Highway and scenic route located in Pima County in southern Arizona...

  • Caves of Arizona
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  • Census statistical areas in Arizona
    Arizona census statistical areas
    The United States Census Bureau has defined six Metropolitan Statistical Areas and four Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Arizona. The following table describes these areas with the following information:...

  • Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
    Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
    The Central Arizona Project is a 336 mi diversion canal in Arizona in the United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River from Lake Havasu City near Parker into central and southern Arizona. The CAP is the largest and most expensive aqueduct system ever constructed in the...

  • Climate of Arizona
  • Coconino Plateau
    Coconino Plateau
    The Coconino Plateau is found south of the Grand Canyon and north—northwest of Flagstaff, in northern Arizona of the Southwestern United States.-Geography:...

  • Collared Peccary
    Collared Peccary
    The collared peccary is a species of mammal in the family Tayassuidae that is found in North, Central, and South America. They are commonly referred to as javelina, saíno or báquiro, although these terms are also used to describe other species in the family...

  • Colorado Desert
    Colorado Desert
    California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert, which extends across southwest North America. The Colorado Desert region encompasses approximately , reaching from the Mexican border in the south to the higher-elevation Mojave Desert in the north and from the Colorado River in...

  • Colorado Pinyon
    Colorado Pinyon
    The Colorado Pinyon, Two-needle Pinyon, or Piñon Pine, ', is a pine in the pinyon pine group whose ancestor was a member of the Madro-Tertiary Flora and is native to the United States....

  • Colorado Plateau
    Colorado Plateau
    The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. The province covers an area of 337,000 km2 within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico,...

  • Colorado River
    Colorado River
    The Colorado River , is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The watershed of the Colorado River covers in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states...

    • Colorado River Compact
      Colorado River Compact
      The Colorado River Compact is a 1922 agreement among seven U.S. states in the basin of the Colorado River in the American Southwest governing the allocation of the water rights to the river's water among the parties of the interstate compact...

    • Colorado River Delta
      Colorado River Delta
      The Colorado River Delta is the region where the Colorado River flows into the Gulf of California . The delta is part of a larger geologic region called the Salton Trough. Historically, the interaction of the river’s flow and the ocean’s tide created a dynamic environment, supporting freshwater,...

  • Communications in Arizona
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  • Confederate Territory of Arizona
    Arizona Territory (CSA)
    The Territory of Arizona was a territory claimed by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, between 1861 and 1865. It consisted of the portion of the New Mexico Territory south of the 34th parallel north including parts of the modern states of New Mexico and Arizona. Its...

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  • Convention centers in Arizona
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  • Copper extraction
    Copper extraction
    Copper extraction techniques refers to the methods for obtaining copper from its ores. This conversion consists of a series of chemical, physical, and electrochemical processes. Methods have evolved and vary with country depending on the ore source, local environmental regulations, and other...

  • Copper mining in Arizona
    Copper mining in Arizona
    -Jerome:Native Americans used copper minerals of the Verde district at modern-day Jerome as pigment to decorate skin and textiles. The first European to visit the area is thought to be Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo, who found silver at a location in central Arizona in 1583...

  • Coronado National Memorial
    Coronado National Memorial
    The Coronado National Memorial commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. The memorial is located in a natural setting on the international border on the southeast flank of the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista, Arizona...

  • Counties of the State of Arizona
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  • Cuisine of Arizona
  • Culture of Arizona
    Culture of Arizona
    The culture of Arizona is a Western culture and most clearly has its roots in the culture of the United States. As a southwestern state, its culture has been greatly influenced by several large immigrant populations, especially those from Latin America...

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  • Cupressus arizonica
    Cupressus arizonica
    Cupressus arizonica, the Arizona Cypress, is a species of cypress native to the southwest of North America, in the United States in Arizona, southwest New Mexico, southern California, and the Chisos Mountains of west Texas, and in Mexico in Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas and...

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  • Curve-billed Thrasher
    Curve-billed Thrasher
    The Curve-billed Thrasher is a perching bird of the thrasher group native to the southwestern United States and much of Mexico....


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  • Dasylirion wheeleri
    Dasylirion wheeleri
    Dasylirion wheeleri is a flowering plant native to arid environments of northern Mexico, in Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern United States, in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, and also in New Mexico and Texas.-Description:Dasylirion wheeleri is a moderate to slow-growing evergreen shrub...


  • Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
    Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
    Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, and approximately south-southeast of downtown, Tucson, Arizona....

  • Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center
    Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center
    The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group , often called The Boneyard, is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base...

  • Deck Park Tunnel
  • Demographics of Arizona
    Demographics of Arizona
    As of 2006, Arizona had an estimated population of 6,166,318, which is an increase of 213,311, or 3.6%, from the prior year and an increase of 1,035,686, or 20.2%, since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 297,928 people and an increase due to netmigration of...

  • Desert Bighorn Sheep
    Desert Bighorn Sheep
    The Desert Bighorn Sheep is a subspecies of Bighorn Sheep that occurs in the desert Southwest regions of the United States and in the northern regions of Mexico. The trinomial of this species commemorates the American naturalist Edward William Nelson...

  • Desert iguana
    Desert iguana
    The desert iguana is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico...

  • Desert Tortoise
    Desert Tortoise
    The desert tortoise is a species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They can be located in western Arizona, southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah. The species name agassizii is in honor of...

  • Desertification
    Desertification
    Desertification is the degradation of land in drylands. Caused by a variety of factors, such as climate change and human activities, desertification is one of the most significant global environmental problems.-Definitions:...

  • Deserts and xeric shrublands
    Deserts and xeric shrublands
    Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture.-Definition and occurrence:...

  • Dendrochronology
    Dendrochronology
    Dendrochronology or tree-ring dating is the scientific method of dating based on the analysis of patterns of tree-rings. Dendrochronology can date the time at which tree rings were formed, in many types of wood, to the exact calendar year...

  • Desert
    Desert
    A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Most deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than...

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    • Colorado Desert
      Colorado Desert
      California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert, which extends across southwest North America. The Colorado Desert region encompasses approximately , reaching from the Mexican border in the south to the higher-elevation Mojave Desert in the north and from the Colorado River in...

    • Lechuguilla Desert
      Lechuguilla Desert
      thumb|250px|right|[[Agave lechuguilla]] the plant the desert is named afterThe Lechuguilla Desert is a small desert located in southwestern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. It is considered to be part of the Lower Colorado Valley region of the Sonoran Desert...

    • North American Desert
      North American Desert
      The North American Deserts includes all the deserts located on the continent. It is also the term for a large U.S. Level 1 ecoregion of the North American Cordillera, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands biome...

    • Painted Desert, Arizona
      Painted Desert, Arizona
      The Painted Desert is a area of badlands located in Northern Arizona in the United States. The Arizona desert stretches from the Grand Canyon National Park into the Petrified Forest National Park and runs roughly astride and just north of the Little Colorado and the Puerco Rivers...

    • Sonoran Desert
      Sonoran Desert
      The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest...

    • Tule Desert (Arizona)
      Tule Desert (Arizona)
      The Tule Desert is a small desert located in southwestern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. It is considered to be part of the Lower Colorado Valley region of the Sonoran Desert. It lies in a north-south direction to the east of the Cabeza Prieta Mountains and almost entirely in the Barry M....

    • Yuma Desert
      Yuma Desert
      The Yuma Desert is a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and the northwest of Mexico. It is in the Salton basin. The desert contains areas of sparse vegetation and has notable areas of sand dunes. With an average rainfall less than 8 inches each...

  • Desert Bighorn Sheep
    Desert Bighorn Sheep
    The Desert Bighorn Sheep is a subspecies of Bighorn Sheep that occurs in the desert Southwest regions of the United States and in the northern regions of Mexico. The trinomial of this species commemorates the American naturalist Edward William Nelson...

  • Desert Iguana
    Desert iguana
    The desert iguana is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico...

  • Desert Tortoise
    Desert Tortoise
    The desert tortoise is a species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They can be located in western Arizona, southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah. The species name agassizii is in honor of...

  • Desertification
    Desertification
    Desertification is the degradation of land in drylands. Caused by a variety of factors, such as climate change and human activities, desertification is one of the most significant global environmental problems.-Definitions:...

  • Deserts and xeric shrublands
    Deserts and xeric shrublands
    Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture.-Definition and occurrence:...

  • Diné
    Dine
    -People named Dine:* Jim Dine , an American pop artist* S. S. Van Dine, an art critic and author* Tom Dine, an American government worker-Other meanings:* Beit ed-Dine, a town in Lebanon* Diné, name for the Navajo Nation in the Navajo language...

     (Native American)
  • Dry Lake Wind Power Project
    Dry Lake Wind Power Project
    Dry Lake Wind Power Project in Navajo County is Arizona's first utility-scale wind farm. Phase 1 consists of 30 Suzlon 2.1 MW wind turbines, for a total nameplate capacity of 63 MW. Iberdrola Renewables built the wind farm for $100 million, and sells the output to Salt River Project...


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  • Economy of Arizona
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  • Education in Arizona
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  • Elections in the State of Arizona
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  • Entrenched river
    Entrenched river
    An entrenched river is a river that is confined to a canyon or gorge, usually with a relatively narrow width and little or no flood plain, and often with meanders worn into the landscape...

  • Environment of Arizona
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  • European colonization of Arizona
    European colonization of Arizona
    The modern colonization of Arizona started with the arrival of Europeans in 1528. Prior to this time, there were migrations of people in and out of this region. These people undoubtedly brought different tools, plants and cultures which affected the various peoples who were already residing in...


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  • Festivals in Arizona
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  • Flag of the State of Arizona
  • Forts of Arizona
    • Fort Whipple
      Fort Whipple
      Fort Whipple may refer to:*Fort Whipple, Arizona, first capital of Arizona Territory*Fort Whipple, Virginia, historical name for U.S. Army's Fort Myer...

      , first capital of Arizona territory
      Arizona Territory
      The Territory of Arizona was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when it was admitted to the Union as the 48th state....

       1864
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  • Four Corners
    • Four Corners Monument
      Four Corners Monument
      The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to this area being called the Four Corners region...

  • Four Peaks
    Four Peaks
    Four Peaks , at in altitude, is a prominent landmark on the eastern skyline of Phoenix, part of the Mazatzal Mountains. It is located in the Tonto National Forest east-northeast of Phoenix, in the Four Peaks Wilderness...


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  • Gadsden Purchase
    Gadsden Purchase
    The Gadsden Purchase is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the U.S...

     of 1853
  • Geography of Arizona
    Geography of Arizona
    Arizona is a landlocked state situated in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Arizona shares land borders with Utah to the north, the Mexican state of Sonora the south, New Mexico to the east, and Nevada to the west. Arizona shares water borders with California and the Mexican...

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  • Geology of Arizona
    • Geology of the Grand Canyon area
      Geology of the Grand Canyon area
      The geology of the Grand Canyon area exposes one of the most complete and studied sequences of rock on Earth. The nearly 40 major sedimentary rock layers exposed in the Grand Canyon and in the Grand Canyon National Park area range in age from about 200 million to nearly 2 billion years old...

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  • Get Back (song)
  • Ghost towns in Arizona
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  • Gila Monster
    Gila monster
    The Gila monster is a species of venomous lizard native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexican state of Sonora...

  • Gila River
    Gila River
    The Gila River is a tributary of the Colorado River, 650 miles long, in the southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona.-Description:...

  • Gila Trout
    Gila trout
    The gila trout is one of two subspecies of trout in O. gilae, the other being the Apache trout . Both are native to the Southwest United States. The gila trout is a species of salmonid, related to the rainbow and cutthroat trouts. The Gila trout has been considered endangered with extinction....

  • Gila Woodpecker
    Gila Woodpecker
    The Gila Woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker of the desert regions of the southwestern United States. They range through southeastern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.-Habitat:...

  • Glen Canyon
    Glen Canyon
    Glen Canyon is a canyon that is located in southeastern and south central Utah and northwestern Arizona within the Vermilion Cliffs area. It was carved by the Colorado River....

  • Glen Canyon Dam
    Glen Canyon Dam
    Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona in the United States, just north of Page. The dam was built to provide hydroelectricity and flow regulation from the upper Colorado River Basin to the lower. Its reservoir is called Lake Powell, and is the second...

  • Gold cyanidation
    Gold cyanidation
    Gold cyanidation is a metallurgical technique for extracting gold from low-grade ore by converting the gold to a water soluble coordination complex. It is the most commonly used process for gold extraction...

  • Golf clubs and courses in Arizona
  • Government of the State of Arizona  website
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  • Governor of the State of Arizona
  • Grand Canyon
    Grand Canyon
    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, the 15th national park in the United States...

  • Grand Canyon Railway
    Grand Canyon Railway
    The Grand Canyon Railway , is a passenger railroad which operates between Williams, Arizona, and Grand Canyon National Park South Rim.-Santa Fe Ownership:...

  • Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
    Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
    Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument is located on the northern edge of the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona. It was established by Presidential Proclamation 7265 on January 11, 2000...

  • Great Seal of the State of Arizona
  • Great Unconformity
    Great Unconformity
    Of the many unconformities observed in geological strata, the term Great Unconformity is most notably applied to either the unconformity observed by James Hutton in 1787 at Siccar Point in Scotland, or that observed by John Wesley Powell in the Grand Canyon in 1869...

  • Gulf of California
    Gulf of California
    The Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland...

     (Sea of Cortez)

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  • Haboob
    Haboob
    A haboob is a type of intense duststorm carried on an atmospheric gravity current. Haboobs are regularly observed in arid regions throughout the world. They have been observed in the Sahara desert , as well as across the Arabian Peninsula, throughout Kuwait, and in the most arid regions of Iraq...

  • Havasu Falls
  • Heritage railroads in Arizona
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  • Hiking trails in Arizona
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  • History of Arizona
    History of Arizona
    The last Native Americans arrived in Arizona between 16,000 BC and 10,000 BC, while the history of Arizona as recorded by Europeans began when Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan, explored the area in 1539. Coronado's expedition entered the area in 1540–1542 during its search for Cíbola...

    • Historical outline of Arizona
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  • Hoover Dam
    Hoover Dam
    Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President...

  • Hoover Dam Bypass
  • Hot springs of Arizona
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  • Hotel San Carlos
    Hotel San Carlos (Phoenix)
    The Hotel San Carlos branch in Phoenix, Arizona, also known as San Carlos Hotel, is both an operating hotel and tourist site. It has been associated with ghost sightings...

  • Humphreys Peak
    Humphreys Peak
    Humphreys Peak is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Arizona, with an elevation of and is located within the Kachina Peaks Wilderness in the Coconino National Forest, about north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Humphreys Peak is the highest of a group of extinct volcanic peaks known as the...


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  • Images of Arizona
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  • Indigenous peoples in Arizona
  • Ipomopsis arizonica
    Ipomopsis arizonica
    Ipomopsis arizonica is a flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the mountains of the Mojave Desert sky islands from southeastern California east through southern Nevada to northern Arizona, growing at 1500-3100 meters altitude...

    (Arizona Firecracker)
  • Islands in Arizona

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  • James Reavis
    James Reavis
    James Addison Reavis , later using the name James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the so-called Baron of Arizona, was an American forger and fraudster...

    , The 'Baron of Arizona'
  • Jojoba
    Jojoba
    Jojoba, pronounced , is a shrub native to the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of Arizona, California, and Mexico. It is the sole species of the family Simmondsiaceae, placed in the order Caryophyllales. It is also known as goat nut, deer nut, pignut, wild hazel, quinine nut, coffeeberry, and gray box...

  • Joshua Tree
  • Jumping Cholla
    Jumping Cholla
    Cylindropuntia fulgida, the Jumping cholla, also known as the hanging chain cholla, is a cactus that is native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.-Distribution:...


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  • Madera Canyon
    Madera Canyon
    Madera Canyon is a canyon on the northwestern face of the Santa Rita Mountains, located 25 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. As part of the Coronado National Forest, the canyon has campsites, picnic areas, and miles of hiking trails. The canyon is used as a resting place for migrating birds, and...

  • Madrean Sky Islands
    Madrean sky islands
    The Madrean Sky Islands are enclaves of Madrean pine-oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. The sky islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and...

  • Maps of Arizona
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  • Marble Canyon
    Marble Canyon
    Marble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon in northern Arizona from Lee's Ferry to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon....

  • McKale Center
    McKale Center
    McKale Memorial Center is an athletic arena located at 1756 E University Blvd on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. It is primarily used for basketball, but also features state-of-the-art physical training and therapy facilities. Its construction is marked with a large...

  • Meteor Crater
    Meteor Crater
    Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the...

  • Mexican period of Arizona
    Mexican period of Arizona
    In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain after a decade of war. The revolution had destroyed the colonial silver mining industry and had bankrupted the national treasury. Along the northern frontier, funds that had supported missions, presidios and trading routes were reduced. As missions...

    , 1821–1848
  • Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
  • Mirrorshades Project
  • Mission San Xavier del Bac
    Mission San Xavier del Bac
    Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham San Xavier Indian Reservation...

  • Mogollon
  • Mogollon Monster
    Mogollon Monster
    The Mogollon Monster is a legendary creature that has been discussed in accounts from central and eastern Arizona along the Mogollon Rim. It is most often described as a Bigfoot or ape-like creature, but descriptions vary...

  • Mogollon Plateau
    Mogollon Plateau
    The Mogollon Plateau or Mogollon Mesa is a pine-covered southern plateau section of the larger Colorado Plateau in east-central Arizona. The southern boundary of the plateau is the Mogollon Rim. The Mogollon Plateau is 2,135-2,440 meters high...

  • Mogollon Rim
    Mogollon Rim
    The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately from northern Yavapai County eastward to near the border with New Mexico.-Description:...

  • Mojave Rattlesnake
  • Monument Valley
    Monument Valley
    Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching above the valley floor. It is located on the northern border of Arizona with southern Utah , near the Four Corners area...

  • Monuments and memorials in Arizona
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  • Mountains of Arizona
    • Mount Graham
      Mount Graham
      Mount Graham is a mountain in southeastern Arizona in the United States, in the Coronado National Forest. It is the highest mountain in the Pinaleño Mountains. As the name "Mount Graham" is often used by locals to refer to the entire mountain range, the peak itself is frequently referred to as...

    • Mount Lemmon
      Mount Lemmon
      Mount Lemmon is in the Santa Catalina Mountains located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. It is above sea-level, and receives approximately 180 inches of snow annually. Mount Lemmon was named in honor of botanist Sarah Lemmon, who trekked to the top of...

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  • Museums in Arizona
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  • Music of Arizona
    Music of Arizona
    The music of Arizona originally was influenced by Native American music, In the 20th century, Mexican immigrants. Banda, corridos, mariachi and conjunto became very popular in Arizona and innovative scenes popped up in immigrant communities across the state.Other major influences come from...

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  • Mystery Castle
    Mystery Castle
    Mystery Castle is located in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, in the foothills of South Mountain Park. It was built in the 1930s by Boyce Luther Gulley for his daughter Mary Lou Gulley. After learning he had tuberculosis, Gulley moved from Seattle, Washington, to the Phoenix area and began building...


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  • National Forests of Arizona
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  • National Monuments of Arizona
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  • National Parks in Arizona
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  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory
    The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the United States National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc for the purpose of radio astronomy...

  • Native Americans in Arizona
  • Natural arches of Arizona
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  • Natural history of Arizona
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  • Navajo Bridge
    Navajo Bridge
    Navajo Bridge crosses the Colorado River's Marble Canyon near Lee's Ferry in the US state of Arizona. Apart from the Glen Canyon Bridge a few miles upstream at Page, Arizona, it is the only roadway crossing of the river and the Grand Canyon for nearly...

  • Navajo Nation
    Navajo Nation
    The Navajo Nation is a semi-autonomous Native American-governed territory covering , occupying all of northeastern Arizona, the southeastern portion of Utah, and northwestern New Mexico...

     (Native American)
  • North American Desert
    North American Desert
    The North American Deserts includes all the deserts located on the continent. It is also the term for a large U.S. Level 1 ecoregion of the North American Cordillera, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands biome...

  • Northern Arizona University
    Northern Arizona University
    Northern Arizona University is a public university located in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and has 39 satellite campuses in the state of Arizona. The university offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees.As of...


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  • Ocotillo
    Ocotillo
    Fouquieria splendens Engelm. is a desert plant of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Common names include ocotillo, desert coral, coachwhip, Jacob's staff, and vine cactus, although it is not a true cactus...

  • Old Plank Road
    Old Plank Road
    The Old Plank Road is a plank road in Imperial County, California that was built in 1915 as an east–west route over the Algodones Dunes. It effectively connected the extreme lower section of Southern California to Arizona and provided the last link in a commercial route between San Diego and...

  • O'odham
    O'odham
    The O'odham peoples, including the Tohono O'odham or Papago, the Pima or Akimel O'odham, and the Hia C-ed O'odham, are an indigenous Uto-Aztecan peoples of the Sonoran desert in southern and central Arizona and northern Sonora, united by a common heritage language, the O'odham language...


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  • Painted Lady
    Vanessa cardui
    Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the Painted Lady, or in North America as the Cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange pattern of flying in a sort of screw shape.-Distribution:...

     (butterfly)
  • Palo Verde
    Palo Verde
    -Botany:*Palo Verde trees, several species of the genus Parkinsonia **Mexican Palo Verde **Blue Palo Verde **Yellow or Foothill Palo Verde gay-Places:...

  • Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
    Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
    The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is composed of broad plateaus, tall escarpments, and deep canyons....

  • Patayan
    Patayan
    Patayan is a term used by archaeologists to describe prehistoric and historic Native American cultures who inhabited parts of modern day Arizona, west to Lake Cahuilla in California, and in Baja California, between 700–1550 CE...

  • People from Arizona
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  • Petrified wood
    Petrified wood
    Petrified wood is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree having turned completely into stone by the process of permineralization...

  • Phantom Ranch
    Phantom Ranch
    Phantom Ranch is a resort village within Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. It is located on the north side of the Colorado River near its confluence with Bright Angel Creek and Phantom Creek.-History:...

  • Phoenix, Arizona
    Phoenix, Arizona
    Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

    , territorial and state capital since 1889
  • Phoenix (mythology)
    Phoenix (mythology)
    The phoenix or phenix is a mythical sacred firebird that can be found in the mythologies of the Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indian and Phoenicians....

  • Phoenix Coyotes
    Phoenix Coyotes
    The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their home games at Jobing.com Arena....

  • Phoenix Eclipse
    Phoenix Eclipse
    The Phoenix Eclipse was an American Basketball Association team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The team began play in the fall of 2001 and played in the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix...

  • Phoenix Mercury
    Phoenix Mercury
    The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; it is one of the eight original franchises...

  • Phoenix Municipal Stadium
    Phoenix Municipal Stadium
    Phoenix Municipal Stadium is a baseball stadium, located in Phoenix, Arizona. The stadium was built in 1964 and holds 8,775 people. It is the spring training home of the Oakland Athletics and is one of two Spring Training facilities, run by the City of Phoenix...

  • Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
    Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
    Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport located southeast of the central business district of the city of Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States...

  • Phoenix Suns
    Phoenix Suns
    The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association and the only team in their division not to be based in California. Their home arena since 1992 has been the US...

  • Phoenix Zoo
    Phoenix Zoo
    The Phoenix Zoo opened in 1962 and is the largest non-profit zoo in the United States. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, a member of the Maytag family, and operates on of land in the Papago Park area of Phoenix. It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of...

  • Piestewa Peak
    Piestewa Peak
    Piestewa Peak , at 2608 feet is the second highest point in the Phoenix Mountains, after Camelback Mountain, and the third highest in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. It is located in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. Piestewa Peak is named in honor of Army Spc...

  • Politics of Arizona
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  • Prescott, Arizona
    Prescott, Arizona
    Prescott is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. It was designated "Arizona's Christmas City" by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford in the late 1980s....

    , territorial capital 1864-1867 and 1877–1889
  • Protected areas of Arizona
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  • Railroad museums in Arizona
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  • Rattlesnake
    Rattlesnake
    Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae . There are 32 known species of rattlesnake, with between 65-70 subspecies, all native to the Americas, ranging from southern Alberta and southern British Columbia in Canada to Central...

  • Red Butte
    Red Butte
    Red Butte is a butte located in the Kaibab National Forest in Coconino County, Arizona. It is known to the Havasupai nation as Wii'i Gdwiisa, "clenched fist mountain," and is regarded as a sacred site....

  • Religion in Arizona
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  • Rock formations in Arizona
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  • Saguaro
    Saguaro
    The saguaro is a large, tree-sized cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in the U.S. state of Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, a small part of Baja California in the San Felipe Desert and an extremely small area of California, U.S...

  • Saguaro National Park
    Saguaro National Park
    Saguaro National Park, located in southern Arizona, is part of the United States National Park System.-Overview:The park is divided into two sections, called districts, lying approximately east and west of the center of the city of Tucson, Arizona. The total area in 2010 was of which is...

  • Salt River Project
    Salt River Project
    The Salt River Project is the umbrella name for two separate entities: the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, an agency of the state of Arizona that serves as an electrical utility for the Phoenix metropolitan area, and the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, a...

  • San Francisco Peaks
    San Francisco Peaks
    The San Francisco Peaks are a volcanic mountain range located in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff.The highest summit in the range, Humphreys Peak, is the highest point in the state of Arizona at in elevation. The San Francisco Peaks are the remains of an eroded stratovolcano...

  • San Francisco volcanic field
    San Francisco volcanic field
    The San Francisco volcanic field is an area of volcanoes in northern Arizona, north of Flagstaff, USA. The field covers 1,800 square miles of the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau. The field contains 600 volcanoes ranging in age from less than 6 million years old to less than 1,000 years ,...

  • San Xavier del Bac Mission
  • Scouting in Arizona
    Scouting in Arizona
    Scouting in Arizona has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.-The founding of the Boy Scouts in Arizona:...

  • Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California
    Gulf of California
    The Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland...

    )
  • Settlements in Arizona
  • Shannon's law (Arizona)
    Shannon's law (Arizona)
    Shannon's law refers to specific changes in Arizona statutes, enacted in 2000, making it a felony offense to discharge firearms randomly into the air.-History:...

  • Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
    Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
    The Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests are a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion of the Sierra Madre Occidental range of western Mexico and the southwestern United States...

  • Silver mining in Arizona
    Silver mining in Arizona
    Silver mining in Arizona was a powerful stimulus for exploration and prospecting in early Arizona. Cumulative silver production through 1981 totaled 490 million troy ounces . However, only about 10% of Arizona's silver production came from silver mining...

  • Sinagua
    Sinagua
    The Sinagua were a pre-Columbian cultural group occupying an area in central Arizona between the Little Colorado River and the Salt River including the Verde Valley and significant portions of the Mogollon Rim country between approximately 500 AD and 1425 AD.Early Sinagua sites consist of pit houses...

  • Ski areas and resorts in Arizona
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  • Snaketown
    Snaketown
    Snaketown is an archaeological site southeast of Phoenix, Arizona that was inhabited by the Hohokam people. Definitive dates are not clear, but the site was generally thought to be inhabited between 300 B. C. E. and 1200 C. E. Hohokam is an O’odham word meaning “those who have gone.” Specifically...

  • Soaptree yucca
    Soaptree yucca
    The Soaptree yucca is a perennial plant in the genus Yucca. It is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States , and northern Mexico .This plant grows from 1.2-4.5 m tall, with a sparsely branched trunk...

  • Solar power in Arizona
    Solar power in Arizona
    Solar power in Arizona has the potential for, according to then-Governor Janet Napolitano, making Arizona "the Persian Gulf of solar energy"., Arizona has over 100 megawatts of solar power....

  • Sonoran Desert
    Sonoran Desert
    The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest...

     
  • Sonorasaurus
    Sonorasaurus
    Sonorasaurus is a genus of brachiosaurid dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous . It was a herbivorous sauropod whose fossils have been found in southern Arizona in the United States. Its name, which means "Sonora lizard", comes from the Sonoran Desert where its fossils were first found...

  • Southwest Extreme Triangle
  • Southwestern United States
    Southwestern United States
    The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...

  • Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert
    Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert
    The Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert are a series of Jesuit Catholic religious outposts established by the Spanish Catholic Jesuits and other orders for religious conversions of the Pima and Tohono O'odham indigenous peoples residing in the Sonoran Desert...

    • Spanish missions in Arizona
      Spanish missions in Arizona
      Beginning in 1493, the Kingdom of Spain maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España in order to facilitate colonization of these lands....

  • Spanish period of Arizona
    Spanish period of Arizona
    In the late 18th century, colonists began steadily entering the region of northern New Spain that is the modern-day U.S. state of Arizona. They were attracted by reports of the discovery of deposits of silver around the Arizonac mining camp...

    , 1687–1821
  • Sports in Arizona
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  • Sports venues in Arizona
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  • State of Arizona website
    • Government of the State of Arizona
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  • Structures in Arizona
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  • Sun Devil Stadium
    Sun Devil Stadium
    Sun Devil Stadium is an outdoor football stadium, located on the campus of Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, United States. The stadium's current seating capacity is 71,706 and the playing surface is natural grass...

     
  • Sunset Crater
    Sunset Crater
    Sunset Crater is a volcanic cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in U.S. State of Arizona. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument....

  • Super Bowl XXVII
    Super Bowl XXVII
    Super Bowl XXVII was a football game played on January 31, 1993 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to decide the National Football League champion following the 1992 regular season. The National Football Conference champion Dallas Cowboys defeated the American Football Conference champion...

  • Superfund sites in Arizona
  • Symbols of the State of Arizona
    • Arizona state amphibian: Arizona Treefrog (Hyla eximia
      Hyla eximia
      Hyla eximia is a species of frog in the Hylidae family.It is endemic to Mexico.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater...

      )
    • Arizona state bird: Cactus Wren
      Cactus Wren
      The Cactus Wren is a species of wren that is native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.-Description:...

       (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus)
    • Arizona state butterfly: Two-tailed Swallowtail
      Two-tailed Swallowtail
      The Two-tailed Swallowtail is a species of the Papilionidae family found in western North America from British Columbia to Central America.-Description:...

       (Papilio multicaudata)
    • Arizona state colors: federal blue
      Blue
      Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...

       and old gold
      Old Gold
      Old gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow. The widely-accepted color "Old gold" is on the darker rather than the lighter side of this range....

    • Arizona state fish: Arizona Trout (Oncorhynchus gilae apache)
    • Arizona state flag: Flag of the State of Arizona
    • Arizona state flower: Saguaro blossom
      Saguaro
      The saguaro is a large, tree-sized cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in the U.S. state of Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, a small part of Baja California in the San Felipe Desert and an extremely small area of California, U.S...

       (Carnegiea gigantea)
    • Arizona state fossil: Petrified wood
      Petrified wood
      Petrified wood is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree having turned completely into stone by the process of permineralization...

    • Arizona state gemstone: Turquoise
      Turquoise
      Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl648·4. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years owing to its unique hue...

    • Arizona state mammal: Ringtail
      Ring-tailed Cat
      The ringtail is a mammal of the raccoon family , native to arid regions of North America. It is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat or miner's cat, and is also sometimes mistakenly called a "civet cat"...

       (Bassariscus astutus)
    • Arizona state motto: Ditat Deus (Latin for God enriches)
    • Arizona state neckwear: Bolo tie
    • Arizona state nickname and slogan: Grand Canyon State
    • Arizona state reptile: Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi
      Crotalus willardi
      Crotalus willardi is a venomous pitviper species found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It is the most recent rattlesnake species to be discovered in the United States. Its specific name is in honor of its discoverer, Professor Frank C. Willard. Five subspecies are currently...

      )
    • Arizona state seal: Great Seal of the State of Arizona
    • Arizona state songs: Arizona March Song and Arizona
      Arizona (song)
      "Arizona" is a song written by Kenny Young and recorded by former Paul Revere and the Raiders member Mark Lindsay in 1969. The single was Number 9 for two weeks in the United States in early 1970 and was awarded a RlAA Gold Disc in April 1970.-Overview:...

    • Arizona state tree: Blue Palo Verde (Parkinsonia florida
      Parkinsonia florida
      Parkinsonia florida is a species of palo verde native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico...

      )
    • United States quarter dollar - Arizona 2008:

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  • Tarantula
    Tarantula
    Tarantulas comprise a group of often hairy and often very large arachnids belonging to the family Theraphosidae, of which approximately 900 species have been identified. Some members of the same Suborder may also be called "tarantulas" in the common parlance. This article will restrict itself to...

  • Telecommunications in Arizona
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  • Telephone area codes in Arizona
  • Territory of Arizona, 1863–1912
  • Territory of Arizona (CSA), 1861–1865
  • Territory of New Mexico, (1850–1863)-1912
  • Texas Canyon
    Texas Canyon
    Texas Canyon is located in Cochise County, Arizona about 20 miles east of Benson on Interstate 10 and lies between the Little Dragoon Mountains on the north and the Dragoon Mountains to the south...

  • Theatres in Arizona
    • commons:Category:Theatres in Arizona
  • Tourism in Arizona  website
    • commons:Category:Tourism in Arizona
  • Transportation in Arizona
    Transportation in Arizona
    -Highways:Main interstate routes include I-17, and I-19 running north-south, I-40, I-8, and I-10 running east-west, and a short stretch of I-15 running northeast/southwest through the extreme northwestern corner of the state.-Phoenix:...

    • :Category:Transportation in Arizona
      • commons:Category:Transport in Arizona
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War on February 2, 1848...

     of 1848
  • Tucson, Arizona
    Tucson, Arizona
    Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

    , territorial capital 1867-1877
  • Tucson Bird Count
    Tucson Bird Count
    The Tucson Bird Count is a community-based program that monitors bird populations in and around the Tucson, Arizona, USA metropolitan area...

  • Tucson Gem & Mineral Show
    Tucson Gem & Mineral Show
    The Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase is one of the premier gem and mineral shows in the world. The event takes place annually in late January and February at approximately 40 to 49 different locations across the city of Tucson, Arizona. Most of the shows are open to the public, except for...

  • Tule Desert (Arizona)
    Tule Desert (Arizona)
    The Tule Desert is a small desert located in southwestern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. It is considered to be part of the Lower Colorado Valley region of the Sonoran Desert. It lies in a north-south direction to the east of the Cabeza Prieta Mountains and almost entirely in the Barry M....

  • Turf Paradise
    Turf Paradise
    Turf Paradise is a thoroughbred and quarter horse racetrack in the North Mountain section of Phoenix, Arizona in the United States.-History:...


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  • UFO
  • United States of America
    • States of the United States of America
      U.S. state
      A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

    • United States census statistical areas of Arizona
      Arizona census statistical areas
      The United States Census Bureau has defined six Metropolitan Statistical Areas and four Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Arizona. The following table describes these areas with the following information:...

    • United States congressional delegations from Arizona
      United States congressional delegations from Arizona
      These are complete tables of congressional delegations from Arizona to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-1863 – 1912: 1 non-voting delegate:-1912 – 1943: 1 seat:-1943 – 1963: 2 seats:...

    • United States congressional districts in Arizona
      Arizona's congressional districts
      The U.S. state of Arizona currently has eight congressional districts. In the 112th Congress, the 4th, 7th and 8th congressional districts have Democratic representatives, while the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th congressional districts are represented by Republicans.Districts 1 is located in sparsely...

    • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
      United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
      The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

    • United States District Court for the District of Arizona
      United States District Court for the District of Arizona
      The United States District Court for the District of Arizona is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Arizona. Court is held in the cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Yuma, and Prescott. The district was created on June 20, 1910, by 36 Stat. 557...

    • United States Representatives from Arizona
    • United States Senators from Arizona
  • United States-Mexico border
  • University of Arizona
    University of Arizona
    The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

  • University of Phoenix Stadium
    University of Phoenix Stadium
    University of Phoenix Stadium, opened August 1, 2006, is a multipurpose football stadium located in Glendale, Arizona. It is the home of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League and the annual Fiesta Bowl...

  • Uranium mining in Arizona
    Uranium mining in Arizona
    Uranium mining in Arizona has taken place since 1918. Prior to the uranium boom of the late 1940s, uranium in Arizona was a byproduct of vanadium mining of the mineral carnotite.-Carrizo Mountains:...

  • U.S. Route 66
  • US-AZ – ISO 3166-2:US
    ISO 3166-2:US
    ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for the United States, ISO...

     region code for the State of Arizona
  • USS Arizona (BB-39)
    USS Arizona (BB-39)
    USS Arizona, a , was built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside...

  • USS Arizona Memorial
    USS Arizona Memorial
    The USS Arizona Memorial, located at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors killed on the USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 by Japanese imperial forces and commemorates the events of that day...


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  • Walnut Canyon National Monument
    Walnut Canyon National Monument
    Walnut Canyon National Monument is a United States National Monument located about southeast of downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, just off Interstate 40. The canyon rim lies at ; the canyon's floor is 350 ft lower...

  • Waterfalls of Arizona
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  • Western Painted Lady
    Painted Lady
    The Cynthia group of colourful butterflies, commonly called painted ladies, comprises a subgenus of the genus Vanessa in the Family Nymphalidae...

     (butterfly)
  • Western United States
    Western United States
    .The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West or simply "the West," traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Because the U.S. expanded westward after its founding, the meaning of the West has evolved over time...

  • White Mountains (Arizona)
    White Mountains (Arizona)
    The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range and mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico; it is a continuation from the west of the Arizona transition zone–Mogollon Rim, with the Rim ending in western New Mexico...

  • Wikimedia
    • Wikimedia Commons:Category:Arizona
      • commons:Category:Maps of Arizona
    • Wikinews:Category:Arizona
      • Wikinews:Portal:Arizona
    • Wikipedia Category:Arizona
      • Wikipedia Portal:Arizona
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Arizona
        • :Category:WikiProject Arizona articles
        • :Category:WikiProject Arizona members
  • Wind power in Arizona
    Wind power in Arizona
    Utility-scale wind power in Arizona began in 2009 with the commissioning of the first phase of the Dry Lake Wind Power Project in Navajo County.- Installed capacity and wind resources :...

  • Wrather Arch
    Wrather Arch
    Wrather Arch is the name of a natural arch in north Arizona. It is located in the eponymous Wrather Canyon, a small tributary of the Paria Canyon, which is itself an important tributary of the Colorado River...


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  • Xeric shrublands and deserts
    Deserts and xeric shrublands
    Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture.-Definition and occurrence:...

  • Xeriscaping
    Xeriscaping
    Xeriscaping and xerogardening refers to landscaping and gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental water from irrigation...


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  • Yaqui
    Yaqui
    The Yaqui or Yoeme are a Native American tribe who originally lived in the valley of the Río Yaqui in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. Many Yaqui still live in their original homeland, but some live in Arizona as a result of wars between the Yaqui and the Mexican government...

  • Yucca
    Yucca
    Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40-50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of North...

  • Yuma Desert
    Yuma Desert
    The Yuma Desert is a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and the northwest of Mexico. It is in the Salton basin. The desert contains areas of sparse vegetation and has notable areas of sand dunes. With an average rainfall less than 8 inches each...

  • Yuma Territorial Prison
    Yuma Territorial Prison
    The Yuma Territorial Prison was a prison in the Arizona Territory of the United States and now in present day Yuma, Arizona. The Territorial Prison is one of the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on the National Register of Historic Places in the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area.The site is...

  • Yuman
  • Yuman music
    Yuman music
    Yuman music is the music of Yumans, a group of Native American tribes from what is now Southern California and Baja California. They include Paipai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Walapai, Mohave, Quechan. Maricopa, Tipai-Ipai, Cocopa, and Kiliwa people. Folk songs in Yuma culture are said to be given to a...


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  • Zoos in Arizona
    • commons:Category:Zoos in Arizona




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