; 6 Transportation The area from Orlando to the tip of the Florida peninsula was at one point a single drainage unit When rainfall exceeded the capacity of Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River floodplain it spilled over and flowed in a southwestern direction to empty into Florida Bay Prior to urban and agricultural development in Florida the Everglades began at the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee and flowed for approximately 100 miles (160 km) emptying into the Gulf of Mexico the limestone shelf is wide and slightly angled instead of having a narrow deep channel characteristic of most rivers the vertical gradient from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is about 2 inches (5.1 cm) per mile creating an almost 60-mile (97 km) wide expanse of river that travels about half a mile (0.8 km) a day This slow movement of a broad shallow river is known as sheetflow and gives the Everglades its nickname River of Grass Water leaving Lake Okeechobee may require months or years to reach its final destination Florida Bay the sheetflow travels so slowly that water is typically stored from one wet season to the next in the porous limestone substrate the ebb and flow of water has shaped the land and every ecosystem in South Florida throughout the Everglades' estimated 5,000 years of existence the motion of water defines plant communities and how animals adapt to their habitats and food sources. Miami Florida Business directory The invasive species that causes the most damage to bird populations is the cat (Felis catus) both domestic and feral Cats that are let outside live close to suburban populations and have been estimated to number 640 per square mile in such close numbers in historic migratory areas they have devastating effects on migratory bird populations.
Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30 although hurricanes can develop beyond those dates the most likely time for Miami to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season which is mid-August through the end of September Although tornadoes are uncommon in the area one struck in 1925 and another in 1997 Around 40% of homes in Miami are built upon floodplains and are considered as flood-risk zones. Cities 2.3.1 First Cuban wave, During the LGM the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of northern North America while Beringia connected Siberia to Alaska in 1973 late American geoscientist Paul S Martin proposed a "blitzkrieg" colonization of the Americas by which Clovis hunters migrated into North America around 13,000 years ago in a single wave through an ice-free corridor in the ice sheet and "spread southward explosively briefly attaining a density sufficiently large to overkill much of their prey." Others later proposed a "three-wave" migration over the Bering Land Bridge These hypotheses remained the long-held view regarding the settlement of the Americas a view challenged by more recent archaeological discoveries: the oldest archaeological sites in the Americas have been found in South America; sites in north-east Siberia report virtually no human presence there during the LGM; and most Clovis artefacts have been found in eastern North America along the Atlantic coast Furthermore colonisation models based on mtDNA yDNA and atDNA data respectively support neither the "blitzkrieg" nor the "three-wave" hypotheses but they also deliver mutually ambiguous results Contradictory data from archaeology and genetics will most likely deliver future hypotheses that will eventually confirm each other a proposed route across the Pacific to South America could explain early South American finds and another hypothesis proposes a northern path through the Canadian Arctic and down the North American Atlantic coast Early settlements across the Atlantic have been suggested by alternative theories ranging from purely hypothetical to mostly disputed including the Solutrean hypothesis and some of the Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories, 1 7656 Wet season 34.5 inches (88 cm) 53.5 inches (136 cm) 23.4 inches (59 cm); . Elections history Plantation 84,955 82,934 Broward Spain regained both East and West Florida after Britain's defeat in the American Revolution and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles in 1783 and continued the provincial divisions until 1821, Another major economic engine in Florida is the United States military There are 24 military bases in the state housing three Unified Combatant Commands; United States Central Command in Tampa United States Southern Command in Doral and United States Special Operations Command in Tampa Some 109,390 U.S military personnel stationed in Florida contributing directly and indirectly $52 billion a year to the state's economy. West Palm Beach PBI Palm Beach International Airport Medium Hub 3,110,450 In July 2011 Downtown's office vacancy rate was reported at 21% dropping from a high of 26% in mid-2010 Downtown also reported an average commercial asking rate of $36.33 making it the eighth-highest in the nation after Manhattan Washington DC Fairfield County Connecticut San Francisco and Boston. Miami Children's Museum School FIU also has international campuses in Asia and Europe the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum has a regional facility in Nervi Italy the School of Architecture has facilities in Genoa Italy for FIU's upper-division and graduate Architecture students and the Florida International University Tianjin Center in China from which a branch of the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management operates the Tianjin Center was constructed as a cooperative venture with the local municipal government and was opened in the Summer of 2006 FIU has also exchanged agreements with the American University in Dubai so that FIU students can now take a semester abroad in Dubai. ; .
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