American flamingos in South Florida Miami Florida Business directory. . Greater Miami is served by several English-language and two major Spanish-language daily newspapers the Miami Herald headquartered in Downtown Miami is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers it also has news bureaus in Broward County Monroe County and Nassau Bahamas the South Florida Sun-Sentinel circulates primarily in Broward and southern Palm Beach counties and also has a news bureau in Havana Cuba the Palm Beach Post serves mainly Palm Beach County especially the central and northern regions and the Treasure Coast the Boca Raton News publishes five days a week and circulates in southern Palm Beach County El Nuevo Herald a subsidiary of the Miami Herald and Diario Las Americas are Spanish-language daily papers that circulate mainly in Miami-Dade County La Palma and El Sentinel are weekly Spanish newspapers published by the Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel respectively and circulate in the same areas as their English-language counterparts, People who kept more traditional ways had settlements along the Tamiami Trail and tended to speak the Mikasuki language They later were federally recognized in 1962 as the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida as metropolitan areas in South Florida began to grow the two groups were closely associated with the Everglades They struggled to maintain privacy while serving as tourist attractions They earned money by wrestling alligators and selling craftworks as of 2008 the Seminole Tribe of Florida had five reservations and the lands of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians were collectively considered a sixth reservation the two tribes have each developed casino gaming on some of their properties to generate revenue for support services and economic development. ; Zoo Miami Miami Earth Sciences 118 The metropolitan area is served by three major commercial airports These airports combine to make the fourth largest domestic origin and destination market in the United States after New York City Los Angeles and Chicago. (18.6) 59.5 Grade 12: 26,392, Lakeside Green Partition proposals (31.4) 90.8 About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km) not including the contribution of the many barrier islands Florida has a total of 4,510 islands that are ten acres or larger in area This is the second-highest number of islands of any state of the United States; only Alaska has more It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean Much of the state is at or near sea level and is characterized by sedimentary soil Florida has the lowest high point of any U.S state the climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south the American alligator American crocodile American flamingo Roseate spoonbill Florida panther bottlenose dolphin and manatee can be found in Everglades National Park in the southern part of the state Along with Hawaii Florida is one of only two states that has a tropical climate and is the only continental state with either a tropical climate or a coral reef the Florida Reef is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States and the third-largest coral barrier reef system in the world (after the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef).
Miami-Dade County is home to many private and public universities and colleges. Main article: Transportation in South Florida 8 See also Little Havana. 11 Primary resources Concourse A Brazilian pepper or Florida holly (Schinus terebinthifolius) has also wreaked havoc on the Everglades exhibiting a tendency to spread rapidly and to crowd out native species of plants as well as to create inhospitable environments for native animals It is especially difficult to eradicate and is readily propagated by birds which eat its small red berries the Brazilian pepper problem is not exclusive to the Everglades; neither is the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) which is a widespread problem in Florida's waterways a major threat to endemic species and is difficult and costly to eradicate the Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) may be causing the most harm to restoration as it blankets areas thickly making it impossible for animals to pass through it also climbs up trees and creates "fire ladders" allowing parts of the trees to burn that would otherwise remain unharmed, Black (non-Hispanic): 17.1% (6.9% (Black total 18.9% when including Black Hispanics) 4 Student Advisor to the School Board. . FIU currently has over 180,000 alumni around the world in more than 30 countries FIU graduates more than 10,000 students a year and confers more than half of all degrees awarded by universities in Miami Alumni services is run by the Florida International University Alumni Association which sponsors numerous alumni events galas and ceremonies annually, In September 1972 5,667 students entered the new state university the largest opening day enrollment at the time Previously Miami had been the largest city in the country lacking a public baccalaureate-granting institution Eighty percent of the student body had just graduated from Dade County Junior College (now Miami-Dade College) a typical student entering FIU was 25 years old and attending school full-time while holding down a full-time job Forty-three percent were married Negotiations with the University of Miami and Dade County Junior College led FIU to open as an upper-division only school it would be nine years before lower-division classes were added, In 2009 fishing was a $6 billion industry employing 60,000 jobs for sports and commercial purposes. Contents France France After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017 a large population of Puerto Ricans began moving to Florida to escape the widespread destruction Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans arrived in Florida after Maria dissipated with nearly half of them arriving in Orlando and large populations also moving to Tampa Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
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