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HOTELS IN PHOENIX ARIZONA
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The state capital and largest city in Arizona, PHOENIX holds only minimal
appeal for tourists. When it began life in the 1860s, it must have seemed like a
good idea. The sweltering little farming town stood in the heart of the large
Salt River Valley, with a ready-made irrigation system left by ancient Indians
(the name Phoenix honors the fact that the city rose from the ashes of a
long-vanished Hohokam community). Now the sixth largest city in the US,
it has filled the entire valley, engulfing the neighboring towns of
Scottsdale, Mesa and Tempe in the process, with over a million people
within the city boundaries and more than two million in the metropolitan area.
Arizona's financial and industrial epicenter may just be getting into its
stride; boosters claim the megalopolis will one day stretch 150 miles, from
Wickenburg to Tucson. |
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