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39 SAGUARO CACTUS Arizona in Depth Arizona’s Natural World 2 40 The saguaro (pronounced sa-hwah-ro) is the largest cactus of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert and grows nowhere else on earth. ) Reaching heights of as much as 50 feet, saguaros are the redwoods of the desert, and often grow in dense stands that resemble forests. Saguaros are a slow-growing cactus; a 6-inchtall cactus might be 10 years old, and it can take 75 years for a saguaro to sprout its first branch. The oldest-known saguaros are around 200 years old, and some have more than 40 arms.
Today, however, many non-natives visit reservations not out of an interest in learning about another culture, but rather to gamble. Throughout the state, there are numerous tribal casinos, and despite the controversies surrounding such enterprises, many Native peoples are finally seeing some income on their onceimpoverished reservations. Many of the people who visit these new casinos are retirees, who are among the fastest-growing segment of Arizona’s population. Each winter, the state’s mild climate attracts hundreds of thousands of retirees from colder parts of the United States and Canada.
One exception is the Casa Grande ruin, a massive earth-walled building that has been well preserved and is now a national monument. There are also many Hohokam petroglyph (rock art) sites that are a lasting reminder of the people who first made the desert flourish. By the 1450s, however, the Hohokam had abandoned their villages, and today many archaeologists believe that the irrigation of desert soil for hundreds of years may have left a thick crust of alkali in farm fields, which would have made further farming impossible.