The Pew Research Center survey in 2014 gave the following religious makeup of Florida:, University Park Towers 2000 Miami was host to many dignitaries and notable people throughout the 1980s and '90s Pope John Paul II visited in November 1987 and held an open-air mass for 150,000 people in Tamiami Park Queen Elizabeth II and three United States presidents also visited Miami Among them is Ronald Reagan who has a street named after him in Little Havana Nelson Mandela's 1989 visit to the city was marked by ethnic tensions Mandela had praised Cuban leader Fidel Castro for his anti-apartheid support on ABC News' Nightline Because of this the city withdrew its official greeting and no high-ranking official welcomed him This led to a boycott by the local African American community of all Miami tourist and convention facilities until Mandela received an official greeting However all efforts to resolve it failed for months resulting in an estimated loss of over US$10 million, Having started as a two-year upper division university serving the Miami area FIU has grown into a much larger traditional university and serves international students More than $600 million has been invested in campus construction with the addition of new residence halls the FIU Stadium recreation center student center and Greek life mansions as well as the fielding of the Division I-A Golden Panthers football team in 2002. A view of Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue A satellite image of the Everglades taken in March 2019 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! . Railroad access, Pahokee The CATS Shuttle connects University Park from the Graham Center bus stop and the Engineering and Computer Sciences Building to the Engineering Center on Flagler Street and 107th Avenue the CATS Shuttle is free and runs roughly every 15 minutes between 6 a.m to 11 p.m Monday through Friday the Golden Panther Express connects the Biscayne Bay Campus to University Park it runs from 6 a.m to 11 p.m Monday through Friday and costs $2.50 each way the Golden Panther Express departs from the Graham Center bus stop at the main campus and the Academic 1 bus stop at the Biscayne Bay Campus, Since late 2001 Downtown Miami has seen a large construction boom in skyscrapers retail and has experienced gentrification[citation needed]. .
2 Popular music Florida Reef Orlando 22/9 23/11 26/13 28/16 31/19 33/22 33/23 33/23 32/23 29/19 26/15 23/11 Presidential election results. Warnings are placed in Everglades National Park to dissuade people from eating fish due to high mercury content Later immigration School of Architecture. School of Arts and Sciences CR 854 Ives Dairy Road SR 817 US 1 former SR 854 (east of US 441). Today Florida is distinctive for its large Cuban expatriate community and high population growth as well as for its increasing environmental issues the state's economy relies mainly on tourism agriculture and transportation which developed in the late 19th century Florida is also renowned for amusement parks orange crops winter vegetables the Kennedy Space Center and as a popular destination for retirees Florida is the flattest state in the United States Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S state of Florida, 5.5 Mangrove and Coastal prairie, All potable water resources have been controlled by the state government through five regional water authorities since 1972. 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.
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