Saguaro cactus is the name of a type of giant that lives only in southern Arizona, southeastern California and northern Mexico. This is the type of cactus that can reach a height of 9-12 meters, and the least of which may be more than 15 meters. Trunk (a common misconception that we call a body) may be about the size of a banana trunk Kepok.

This cactus can live for over 200 years. To protect the damage to natural features that exist only in the region in 1933, the giant cactus cactus, and other types of cactus, desert plants and animals living in the neighborhood, protected by Saguaro National Park management. desert region where the growth of these giant cacti cactus called the Sonoran Desert. This is one of the most hot and arid North American mainland. Because it is precisely the type of plants and some animals can survive (survive) in this medium. On the continent of North America knows that there are four types of deserts, the Great Basin, Mojave, Sonora and Chihuahua.

Saguaro National Park itself, including the Sonora desert region is divided into two, namely, Saguaro East and West, each 48 km to reach the city of Tucson, in the meantime.