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The recovery partition is hidden in both the Startup Disk system preference and the Disk Utility.
To view:
 diskutil list
 /dev/disk5
    #:                 TYPE NAME                            SIZE          IDENTIFIER
    0:                 GUID_partition_scheme                *320.1 GB     disk5
    1:                 EFI                                  209.7 MB      disk5s1
    2:                 Apple_HFS LION BOOT DISK             319.2 GB      disk5s2
    3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD               650.0 MB      disk5s3

In the example above slice 3 is the recovery parition.

To boot into this partition hold the ATL key when rebooting and select the Recovery volume or hold Command-R when rebooting to boot directly into the recovery partition.