WhereAZ.com
There are all sorts of things to see, do, hear, touch, taste, experience, and absorb that make southern Arizona a unique and special place in the world! WhereAZ.com provides a top-level pictorial overview!
Category: 501(c) 3 Organization
Discipline: Community arts
About WhereAZ.com
We're dedicated to sharing succinct information about the various aspects of southern Arizona that make it special. We use "edu-tainment" illustrations ... educational and entertaining.
There's much to share, too ... lots of places and things to see, do, hear, touch, taste, experience, absorb ... that make Tucson and southern Arizona unique in the world!
Even though there are some 600+ items now online, we know "it's not all there yet"! Lots more to come! We're continually adding and revising and updating.
Got an idea or suggestion for us? We welcome your inputs ... please do let us know what you think ... in advance, thanks!
Pop Quiz ... What kind of frog is this little guy, and what does it do that makes it unique? The answer is in WhereAZ.com ... and yes, it does live in southern Arizona!
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Rare but there in southern Arizona
Jaguar
-Jaguars are mostly found in Mexico, but they can cross the border into Arizona, though it’s rare to see them
-6 to 7.5 feet long from nose to tail, 3 feet tall from shoulders to feet, and weigh between 100 and 250 pounds
-In 2023, federally run trail cameras in southern Arizona’s Huachuca Mountains photographed a wild jaguar at least twice, in March and May … the latest jaguar to be caught on camera (2024) in Southern Arizona in the Huachuca and Whetstone mountains now has a Tohono O’odham name … O: had Ñu:kudam, which means “jaguar protector” in the O’odham language … it’s pronounced OH-shahd NOO-KOO-dum, but you can call the cat OH-shahd for short
Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) opened in 1958
Kitt Peak National Observatory
– KPNO is a program of the National Science Foundation’s Optical Infrared Laboratory
– Located on the Tohono O’odham Nation grounds, 54 miles west of Tucson
==> Home to the world’s largest collection of optical telescopes and some of the best skies in the world for astronomical observations
– KPNO hosts the facilities of consortia that, between them, operate more than a dozen optical telescopes and two radio telescopes
– KPNO operates the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope on behalf of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey (a project led by the US Department of Energy Office of Science) and the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope (a partnership between Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Purdue University, the NSF and NASA)
Alias: Opuntia
Prickly Pear Cactus Spring Flower
-Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers
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