The Miami-Dade Police Department is a full-service metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas although it has lenient mutual aid agreements with other municipalities most often the City of Miami Police Department With 4,700 employees it is Florida's largest police department the Department is often referred to by its former name the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro, Beginnings 5 References Westwood Lakes Hispanic or Latino of any race: 65.0%! Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA ICAO: KMIA FAA LID: MIA) also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field is the primary airport serving the Miami area with over 1,000 daily flights to 167 domestic and international destinations the airport is in an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Florida 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Downtown Miami in metropolitan Miami adjacent to the cities of Miami and Miami Springs and the village of Virginia Gardens Nearby are the cities of Hialeah and Doral and the Census-designated place of Fontainebleau. Over time there have been numerous proposals for partitioning the state of Florida to form a separate state of South Florida Such proposals have usually been made as political statement rather than serious attempts at secession Reasons often stated are cultural ethnic economic and financial frustrations with the state government in Tallahassee which is in North Florida, 1 Music history MIA has a number of air cargo facilities the largest cargo complex is located on the west side of the airport inside the triangle formed by Runways 12/30 and 9/27 Cargo carriers such as LAN Cargo Atlas Air Southern Air Amerijet International and DHL operate from this area the largest privately owned facility is the Centurion Cargo complex in the northeast corner of the airport with over 51,000 m2 (550,000 sq ft) of warehouse space FedEx and UPS operate their own facilities in the northwest corner of the airport off of 36th Street in addition to its large passenger terminal in Concourse D American Airlines operates a maintenance base to the east of Concourse D centered around a semicircular hangar originally used by National Airlines which can accommodate three widebody aircraft. World 14,639,041,733.88 14,748,663,389.75 100.00 100.00 Notes 9 Pompano Beach Broward 78,191 99,845 111,954 +12.13% Albizu University has numerous clubs and organizations to encourage student involvement in larger communities Opportunities range from organizations exclusive to Albizu such as the Student Council to associations that operate on a national or international level and welcome Albizu students to participate as campus representatives. As of 2010 those of Hispanic or Latino ancestry accounted for 22.5% (4,223,806) of Florida's population Out of the 22.5% the largest groups were 6.5% (1,213,438) Cuban 4.5% (847,550) Puerto Rican 3.3% (629,718) Mexican and 1.6% (300,414) Colombian Florida's Hispanic population includes large communities of Cuban Americans in Miami and Tampa Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Tampa and Mexican/Central American migrant workers the Hispanic community continues to grow more affluent and mobile as of 2011 57.0% of Florida's children under the age of 1 belonged to minority groups Florida has a large and diverse Hispanic population with Cubans and Puerto Ricans being the largest groups in the state Nearly 80% of Cuban Americans live in Florida especially South Florida where there is a long-standing and affluent Cuban community Florida has the second largest Puerto Rican population after New York as well as the fastest-growing in the nation Puerto Ricans are more widespread throughout the state though the heaviest concentrations are in the Orlando area of Central Florida. 1980 346,681 3.5% Much of Florida has an elevation of less than 12 feet (3.7 m) including many populated areas Therefore it is susceptible to rising sea levels associated with global warming the Atlantic beaches that are vital to the state's economy are being washed out to sea due to rising sea levels caused by climate change the Miami beach area close to the continental shelf is running out of accessible offshore sand reserves Elevated temperatures can damage coral reefs causing coral bleaching the first recorded bleaching incident on the Florida Reef was in 1973 Incidents of bleaching have become more frequent in recent decades in correlation with a rise in sea surface temperatures White band disease has also adversely affected corals on the Florida Reef; .
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