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Tucson is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the United States - the area at the base of Sentinel Peak has been inhabited for roughly 4,000 years, according to the City of Tucson.

Tucson's name comes from the Tohono O'odham phrase 'S-cuk Son', meaning 'base of the black mountain', referring to Sentinel Peak west of downtown.

Tucson was formally founded on August 20, 1775 as the Spanish Presidio San Agustin del Tucson, a walled fort on the Santa Cruz River.

Tucson, nicknamed 'The Old Pueblo', became part of the United States through the Gadsden Purchase of 1854 and served as the capital of the Arizona Territory from 1867 to 1877.

Tucson had a population of 542,629 in the 2020 Census and is the seat of Pima County in southern Arizona, according to the US Census Bureau.

Tucson has about 228,020 households with an average of 2.29 persons per household, and about 51.8% of its housing units are owner-occupied, according to the US Census Bureau.

The median value of owner-occupied housing in Tucson is $266,200, according to Census Bureau figures.

Tucson enjoys roughly 350 days of sunshine a year at an elevation of 2,389 feet, in a desert valley ringed by five mountain ranges: the Santa Catalina, Rincon, Santa Rita, Tucson, and Tortolita mountains.

The University of Arizona in Tucson was founded in 1885, before Arizona became a state, and remains the city's largest institution of higher education.

Tucson was designated a UNESCO City of Gastronomy in 2015, the first city in the United States to receive that honor, recognizing its 4,000-year tradition of agriculture and Mexican and Native American food heritage.