Wildlife Charcos at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona
National Park Service, Intermountain Geographic Resource Information Management Team. 2005. Wildlife Charcos at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. National Park Service, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Resources Division
This is a vector point shapefile showing the location of wildlife charcos at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. A charco is a drainage inpoundment created by an earthen dam, and serves as a temporary source of surface water. The coordinates for this dataset were digitized from DOQQ's developed from aerial photos taken in 1996. Four charcos were constructed to the east of State Route 85 when the highway was constructed in 1942. The NPS intended these charcos to offset the adverse impacts to wildlife migration/access to water sources that was expected to occur as a result of construction. The earthen dams were breached some time ago, but the sites continue to retain some surface flow. The supplemental water supports dense vegetation and a variety of amphibians.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- National Park Service, Intermountain Geographic Resource Information Management Team
- Date of Issue
- 2005-06
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Resources Division
- Units
- ORPI