Editing Marana, Arizona (section)

==Town facts==
[[File:Pinal Airpark.jpg|thumb|left|Pinal Airpark]]
* Marana was named for the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] word ''maraña'' ("thicket") by 19th-century railroad workers who had to clear a line through the area.
* In 2007, Marana began hosting the [[PGA Tour]]'s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (now the [[WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship]]). Held in late February, the event included the world's top 64 professional golfers. [[Henrik Stenson]] won the inaugural event, and [[Tiger Woods]] won in 2008. [[Geoff Ogilvy]] won the 2009 event. [[Ian Poulter]] won the 2010 event and [[Luke Donald]] took the 2011 title. The tournament remained in Marana through 2014. (In September 2014, Cadillac was announced as the new title sponsor for 2015, and the event was moved to San Francisco's [[TPC Harding Park]] golf course.)
* [[Pinal Airpark]] ([[Evergreen International Aviation]]) is located just north of Marana in [[Pinal County, Arizona|Pinal County]]. Many commercial [[airline]]s send their airplanes to this site for storage. It was well known in the 1970s and 1980s as an air base for the [[CIA]]. The airport was said to be a [[United States Forest Service|U.S. Forest Service]] [[Aerial firefighting|air tanker]] base, but when a series of [[forest fire]]s broke out in the mountains surrounding Tucson in the early 1970s, Airpark officials had to admit that these places were not Forest Service tankers. Locals had asked for them to put out the fires. Airpark officials said these were actually [[paramilitary]] cargo planes. Access to the Airpark is stringently monitored.

===Veterans Cemetery===
Marana is home to one of the four Arizona state Veterans Memorial Cemeteries.<ref>[https://dvs.az.gov/services/memorials-burials Arizona Department of Veterans' Services – Cemeteries]</ref><ref>[https://dvs.az.gov/arizona-veterans-memorial-cemetery-marana Arizona Veterans' Memorial Cemetery at Marana]</ref> Since it was developed in 2016 by the [[Arizona Department of Veterans' Services]], over 2,450 burials have been undertaken.

[[File:Marana AZ.jpg|thumb|right|{{center|Sunset over Marana}}]]