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Clumps of spear-like cacti that give the park its name are scattered throughout -- occasionally in greater concentration -- within Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora. The park is the only place in the United States where the organ pipe cactus grows wild. Along with organ pipe, many other types of cacti and other desert flora native to the Yuma Desert grow in the park
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Scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
Scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
Scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
Saguaro cactus scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
Saguaro cactus scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
Saguaro cactus scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
Saguaro cactus scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
Scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora. Shown here are primarily saguaros
Scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora. The organ pipe variety in this image is the cactus with upward-spreading, asparagus-looking stems
Scene at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 517-square-mile reserve that shares a border between Arizona's Yuma County and the Mexican state of Sonora
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The park is the only place in the United States where the organ pipe cactus grows wild. Along with organ pipe, many other types of cacti and other desert flora native to the Yuma Desert grow in the park.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Date
01/01/2018
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