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  2. Kartchner Caverns State Park - Wikipedia

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    Arizona State Parks. Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages. [1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers ...

  3. Frasassi Caves - Wikipedia

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    Show cave opened. 1974 [1] Show cave length. 5,000 m. Website. Official website. A column of stalactites and stalagmites. The Frasassi Caves ( Italian: Grotte di Frasassi) are a karst cave system in the municipality of Genga, Italy, in the province of Ancona, Marche. They are among the most famous show caves in Italy .

  4. Soda straw - Wikipedia

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    A soda straw (or simply straw) is a speleothem in the form of a hollow mineral cylindrical tube. They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws grow in places where water leaches slowly through cracks in rock, such as on the roofs of caves. Soda straws in caves rarely grow more than a few millimetres per year and may average one tenth ...

  5. Benson, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    FIPS code. 04-05770. GNIS ID. 2409835 [2] Website. bensonaz.gov. Benson is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 5,105. [3] It was founded as a rail terminal for the area, and located approximately 45 miles (72 km) east-southeast of the city of Tucson .

  6. List of Arizona state parks - Wikipedia

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    Kartchner Caverns State Park: Cochise: 4,700 1,400: 1988: Preserves a limestone cave kept in near-pristine condition since its discovery in 1974: Lake Havasu State Park: Mohave: 928 376: 480 150: 1965: Provides water recreation on Lake Havasu: Lost Dutchman State Park: Pinal: 320 130: 2,000 610: 1977

  7. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Short video showing panoramas from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a U.S. national monument and UNESCO biosphere reserve located in extreme southern Arizona that shares a border with the Mexican state of Sonora. The park is the only place in the United States where the senita and organ pipe cactus ...

  8. Neil Miller (writer) - Wikipedia

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    In a departure, Miller's 2008 book, Kartchner Caverns was a nonfiction account of the discovery of stunning limestone caves in southern Arizona by two young men in 1974, and their 25-year quest to save them from environmental degradation. The caves have been preserved as Kartchner Caverns State Park.

  9. MercadoLibre's Growth Story in 4 Simple Charts

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    Data source: MercadoLibre. Chart by author. 2. Its gross merchandise volume is soaring. As MercadoLibre gained more active users, its gross merchandise volume (GMV) -- or the total value of all of ...