Place:Sells, Pima, Arizona, United States

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NameSells
Alt namesIndian Oasissource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS4020265
Komkc'eḍ 'e Wa:'osidksource: Wikipedia
TypeCensus-designated place
Coordinates31.915°N 111.876°W
Located inPima, Arizona, United States
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Sells (O'odham: Komkcʼeḍ ʼe-Wa:ʼosidk) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, Arizona, United States. The population was 2,799 at the 2000 census. It is the capital of the Tohono O'odham Nation and the home of several of their tribal businesses, such as . Originally named Indian Oasis, by cattle-ranchers/businessmen brothers, Joseph and Louis Ménager in 1912. The Ménager brothers also built and ran the Indian Oasis Mercantile Store. The settlement took its present English name in 1918 to honor Indian Commissioner Cato Sells. The O'odham name means "Tortoise Got Wedged".

Sells is near the Kitt Peak National Observatory.

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