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Ahwatukee ( formally Ahwatukee Foothills Village ) is an L-shaped neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona bordered on the north by South Mountain Park and Baseline Road, on the east by Interstate 10 and the cities of Chandler, Guadalupe, and Tempe, and on the south and west by the Gila River Indian Community. It is the southernmost of the city's 15 urban villages. As of 2000, the 35.8 square mile village has a population of 85,000.

Although annexed by the City of Phoenix between 1978 and 1987, before substantial residential growth, many of Ahwatukee's residents do not strongly associate their region with the rest of the city, due in part to its geographic isolation (South Mountain and South Mountain Park separate Ahwatukee from virtually all of the other 14 urban villages of Phoenix, which lie to the north).

Lows rarely reach freezing temperatures during the winter months. However, cool air can fall from the upper elevations and settle in the lower terrains, causing variations in temperature.

Snow is rare for the area, but can be seen on the Sierra Estrella mountain range to the southwest.

Surrounded to the northwest by South Mountain Park, blocked to the east by I-10 and to the south by the Gila River Indian Community, Ahwatukee Foothills is geographically isolated from the city which it is part of, Phoenix. Due to its relatively few access points (mainly through a few bridges across Interstate 10), it has been called The World's Largest Cul-de-sac. This could potentially change, however, if the hotly contested South Mountain Freeway is built along the southern edge along what is now Pecos Road; this freeway would provide a truck bypass around downtown Phoenix and connect Ahwatukee to the west valley cities of Laveen, Avondale and Glendale. This freeway is presently under review for environmental impact and has been challenged because of its high cost (currently 4 times the original projected amount), its proximity to schools and homes, its actual value as a useful commuter route (it would be principally used as a bypass around downtown Phoenix by trucks traveling from the east and south on their way to Los Angeles via Interstate 10) and the controversy surrounding the required demolition of over 250 homes, businesses and churches as well as the leveling of a section of South Mountain itself, which the Gila Indian Community claims has religious value as well as its intrinsic value to the Phoenix community as a whole as it is part of the world's largest city park and one of the Phoenix "Points of Pride".

South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona is the largest city park in the United States one of the largest urban parks in North America and in the world. It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride. The South Mountains (originally and still officially named the Salt River Mountains), known locally as simply South Mountain, is a mountain range in central Arizona in south Phoenix, Arizona. It is on public land managed by the city of Phoenix as South Mountain Park. Geologically, the South Mountains are thought to be a metamorphic core complex: evidence of stretching of North America from southwest to northeast.