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| Rising 12,633 feet to Arizona's hightest point and visible for miles from all
directions,San Francisco Mountain, dominates the horizon.
Here it is as seen from Sunset Crater National Monument (l to r : Agassiz, Humphreys,
Fremont and Doyle.) All of the regions Native peoples revere them.
The first wave of Spanish explorers, surprised that such large mountains did not spawn lakes or streams, charted them as Sierra Sin Agua - mountains without water. Though it captures large amounts of rain and snowfall, moisture drains down rapidly through fractured bedrock and sponged up by prorus volcanic rock. |
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