Charco de Ingenio is a massive botanical garden created on private land. It houses rare specimen of cactus in greenhouses with a small creek at one end, at the other end is a field of endangered plants that have been transplanted to the garden to be taken care of, and in between is acres of desert fauna as well as a massive canyon, a dam, and the ruins of a mill from the 1500s.
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