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5.5 Mangrove and Coastal prairie 9 References Brickell is the fastest-growing neighborhood in Miami and has one of the highest population densities outside of New York City. Miami is the home of many college sports teams the two largest are the University of Miami Hurricanes whose football team formerly played at the Miami Orange Bowl from 1937 until 2008 moving to Sun Life Stadium subsequently and Florida International University Panthers whose football team plays at FIU Stadium. In 1946 the Miami Seahawks played in the All-America Football Conference for one season 1946 and then folded, Overview Miami Florida Business directory Since the development of the federal NASA Merritt Island launch sites on Cape Canaveral (most notably Kennedy Space Center) in 1962 Florida has developed a sizable aerospace industry.

Northwest 68th Avenue N/S SR 826 Palm Springs North Broward County line Palm Springs North. Americans of English descent and Americans of Scots-Irish descent began moving into northern Florida from the backwoods of Georgia and South Carolina Though technically not allowed by the Spanish authorities and the Floridan government they were never able to effectively police the border region and the backwoods settlers from the United States would continue to immigrate into Florida unchecked These migrants mixing with the already present British settlers who had remained in Florida since the British period would be the progenitors of the population known as Florida Crackers, Democratic 600,258 41.65% Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Study abroad Concourse C. . In 1988 English was affirmed as the state's official language in the Florida Constitution Spanish is also widely spoken especially as immigration has continued from Latin America Twenty percent of the population speak Spanish as their first language Twenty-seven percent of Florida's population reports speaking a mother language other than English and more than 200 first languages other than English are spoken at home in the state. High schools (open to all Downtown residents): Avianca El Salvador Guatemala City Managua San Pedro Sula San Salvador Caribbean Airlines Port of Spain. . Mike Lowell 1 History 1910 11,933 140.8% Red mangrove trees bordering a tidal estuary in the Everglades Miami Florida Business directory Plantation Following the 1959 Cuban revolution that unseated Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power most Cubans who were living in Miami returned to Cuba Soon after however many middle class and upper class Cubans moved to Florida en masse with few possessions Some Miamians were upset about this especially the African Americans who believed that the Cuban workers were taking their jobs.[citation needed] in addition the school systems struggled to educate the thousands of Spanish-speaking Cuban children Many Miamians fearing that the Cold War would become World War III left the city while others started building bomb shelters and stocking up on food and bottled water Many of Miami's Cuban refugees realized for the first time that it would be a long time before they would get back to Cuba in 1965 alone 100,000 Cubans packed into the twice daily "freedom flights" from Havana to Miami Most of the exiles settled into the Riverside neighborhood which began to take on the new name of "Little Havana" This area emerged as a predominantly Spanish-speaking community and Spanish speakers elsewhere in the city could conduct most of their daily business in their native tongue By the end of the 1960s more than four hundred thousand Cuban refugees were living in Dade County. Public transportation See also: Operation Peter Pan and Freedom Flights.