10 Bank of America 2,000 The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform the largest deposits of potash in the United States are found in Florida the largest deposits of rock phosphate in the country are found in Florida Most of this is in Bone Valley. ! Biscayne National Park, A clump of mangroves in the distance Florida Bay at Flamingo, In 1961 the school system started a "Spanish for Spanish" program With help from the Ford Foundation the program was modified into a full bilingual education curriculum with a pilot program at Coral Way Elementary School the program was successful and paved the way for the Bilingual Education Act of 1968. . 4.2 Education Following the demise of the Calusa and Tequesta Native Americans in southern Florida were referred to as "Spanish Indians" in the 1740s probably due to their friendlier relations with Spain the Creek invaded the Florida peninsula; they conquered and assimilated what was left of pre-Columbian societies into the Creek Confederacy They were joined by remnant Indian groups and formed the Seminole a new tribe by ethnogenesis the Seminole originally settled in the northern portion of the territory in addition free blacks and fugitive slaves made their way to Florida where Spain had promised slaves freedom and arms if they converted to Catholicism and pledged loyalty to Spain These African Americans gradually created communities near those of the Seminole and became known as the Black Seminoles the groups acted as allies, Republican 378,196 26.24% Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492 under Spanish flag Six years later Vasco da Gama reached India under Portuguese flag by navigating south around the Cape of Good Hope thus proving that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans are connected in 1500 in his voyage to India following Vasco da Gama Pedro Alvares Cabral reached Brazil taken by the currents of the South Atlantic Gyre Following these explorations Spain and Portugal quickly conquered and colonized large territories in the New World and forced the Amerindian population into slavery in order to explore the vast quantities of silver and gold they found Spain and Portugal monopolized this trade in order to keep other European nations out but conflicting interests nevertheless led to a series of Spanish-Portuguese wars a peace treaty mediated by the Pope divided the conquered territories into Spanish and Portuguese sectors while keeping other colonial powers away England France and the Dutch Republic enviously watched the Spanish and Portuguese wealth grow and allied themselves with pirates such as Henry Mainwaring and Alexandre Exquemelin They could explore the convoys leaving the Americas because prevailing winds and currents made the transport of heavy metals slow and predictable. 1.8% Irish Miami college sports teams, A turning point came for development in the Everglades at the proposal in the late 1960s for an expanded airport after Miami International Airport outgrew its capacities the new jetport was planned to be larger than O'Hare Dulles JFK and LAX airports combined,[citation needed] and the chosen location was 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Everglades National Park the first sentence of the U.S Department of Interior study of the environmental impact of the jetport read "Development of the proposed jetport and its attendant facilities . will inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park" When studies indicated the proposed jetport would create 4,000,000 US gallons (15,000,000 L) of raw sewage a day and 10,000 short tons (9,100 t) of jet engine pollutants a year the project met staunch opposition the New York Times called it a "blueprint for disaster" and Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson wrote to President Richard Nixon voicing his opposition: "It is a test of whether or not we are really committed in this country to protecting our environment." Governor Claude Kirk withdrew his support for the project and Marjory Stoneman Douglas was persuaded at 79 years old to go on tour to give hundreds of speeches against it Nixon instead established Big Cypress National Preserve announcing it in the Special Message to the Congress Outlining the 1972 Environmental Program. .
In 1999 an evaluation of the C&SF was submitted to Congress as part of the Water Development Act of 1992 the seven-year report called the "Restudy" cited indicators of harm to the ecosystem: a 50 percent reduction in the original Everglades diminished water storage harmful timing of water releases from canals and pumping stations an 85 to 90 percent decrease in wading bird populations over the past 50 years and the decline of output from commercial fisheries Bodies of water including Lake Okeechobee the Caloosahatchee River St Lucie estuary Lake Worth Lagoon Biscayne Bay Florida Bay and the Everglades reflected drastic water level changes hypersalinity and dramatic changes in marine and freshwater ecosystems the Restudy noted the overall decline in water quality over the past 50 years was due to loss of wetlands that act as filters for polluted water it predicted that without intervention the entire South Florida ecosystem would deteriorate Water shortages would become common and some cities would have annual water restrictions, 6.3 Drainage Largest cities in South Florida by population:, Florida Keys A canal lock in the Everglades Drainage District around 1915. Jungle Island Miami As of the census of 2000 there were 2,253,362 people 776,774 households and 548,402 families in the county with an average population density of 1,158 inhabitants per square mile (447/km2) There were 852,278 housing units with an average density of 438 per square mile (169/km2) the county's racial makeup was 69.7% White (49% White Hispanic 20.7% Non-Hispanic White) 20.3% African American and Black (with a large part of Caribbean descent) 0.20% Native American 1.4% Asian 0.01% Pacific Islander 4.60% from other races and 3.80% from two or more races 57.3% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race in relation to ancestry (excluding the various Hispanic and Latino ancestries) 5% were Haitian 5% American 2% Italian 2% Jamaican 2% German 2% Irish and 2% English ancestry, 4 Defunct and relocated teams Andreas School of Business, Florida Bay Boynton Beach. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Coral Gables Chemistry & Physics Building 1990 Invertebrates: carpenter ants termites American cockroach Africanized bees the Miami blue butterfly and the grizzled mantis. European explorers and settlers Statutes Grade 1: 25,014, Miami International University of Art & Design (private). .
The Donahey Law Firm