Visit of March 17, 2010 with Lisa Janti, Jeanette Roberts, Alexander de Groot, Kimberly Syphrett and me at the Saguaro National Monument which consists of two districts, Saguaro West and Saguaro East. The two areas, separated by the city of Tucson, are about 25 miles apart. Together Saguaro West and the much larger Saguaro East preserve 83,576 acres of the life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert, including the park's namesake, the saguaro.