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Santa Catalina Mountains

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Santa Catalina Mountains

Small mountain range in southeastern Arizona, northeast of Tucson. Largely within the Coronado National Forest, it reaches 2,791 m/9,157 ft at Mount Lemmon, which is noted for skiing and as the site of a University of Arizona telescope.

The ecological test project BioSphere 2 is located in the northern foothills, in the desert near Oracle (population (1990) 3,000).



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Kent and Berry Davis, all of Tucson, crossed the Santa Catalina mountains and traveled due west, as nearly as the configuration of the country permitted.
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