Main article: Geography of Florida. Downtown is served by the Miami Metrorail at Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Government Center and Brickell stations accessible from Broward and Palm Beach counties via Tri-Rail transfer station the Metro connects to the Downtown Metromover which encompasses 22 stations on the clockwise Inner (or Downtown) loop and counterclockwise Brickell and Omni branch loops Government Center station is Downtown's main station and allows for transfers to all Metromover loops Metrorail trains and Metrobus lines at the Stephen P Clark Government Center! . Margate Languages The county is home to 34 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas the northern central and eastern portions of the county are heavily urbanized with many high-rise buildings along the coastline including South Florida's central business district Downtown Miami Southern Miami-Dade County includes the Redland and Homestead areas which make up the agricultural economy of the region Agricultural Redland makes up roughly one third of Miami-Dade County's inhabited land area and is sparsely populated a stark contrast to the densely populated urban northern portion of the county, 7.1 Kissimmee River FIU has three museums the Frost Art Museum the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum and the Jewish Museum of Florida the Frost Art Museum is located on Modesto A Maidique campus and was opened in 1977 as the Art Museum at Florida International University the Frost Art Museum's Permanent Collection consists of a broad array of art objects from ancient cultural artifacts to contemporary works of art the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum is located in Miami Beach and promotes the collection preservation and understanding of decorative art and design from the period from 1885 to 1945 FIU also has a large sculpture collection named the Sculpture Park at FIU with sculptures from such prominent artists as Anthony Caro Jacques Lipchitz Daniel Joseph Martinez and Tony Rosenthal Many different art structures statues paintings and mosaics can be seen throughout campus in gardens buildings walkways and on walls, United Kingdom 407,300,000 359,480,074.29 2.44 4.17 4.1 Athletics 3 Campus Environmental risk Prior to urban development of the South Florida region pine rocklands covered approximately 161,660 acres (654.2 km2) in Miami-Dade County Within Everglades National Park 19,840 acres (80.3 km2) of pine forests are protected but outside the park 1,780 acres (7.2 km2) of pine communities remained as of 1990 averaging 12.1 acres (49,000 m2) in area the misunderstanding of the role of fire also played a part in the disappearance of pine forests in the area as natural fires were put out and pine rocklands transitioned into hardwood hammocks Prescribed fires occur in Everglades National Park in pine rocklands every three to seven years. ! 6.1 List Miami-Dade County Public Schools operates area public schools:, Indian Creek Most (or all) of the master's degree requirements plus:, Demographics of student body Japan first opened its consulate in Miami in 1992 as of 1992 this consulate gives logistical support to Japanese embassies in the Caribbean and Latin America Japan opened a consulate in Miami after Japanese investors purchased several major real estate properties in Florida. Florida leads the United States in tornadoes per area (when including waterspouts) but they do not typically reach the intensity of those in the Midwest and Great Plains Hail often accompanies the most severe thunderstorms.
To retain the port's competitive rank as a world-class port in 1997 the port undertook a redevelopment program of over $250 million which is well underway to accommodate the changing demands of cruise vessel operators passengers shippers and carriers to further resolve accessibility the PortMiami Tunnel was constructed in 2010 and completed in 2014 providing direct vehicle access from the port to the interstate highway system via State Road 836 thereby bypassing congestion in downtown Miami; New River (23.9) 75.8 Gregory Baker Wolfe a former United States diplomat and then-president of Portland State University became FIU's third president from 1979 to 1986 After stepping down as president Wolfe taught in the university's international relations department the student union on the Biscayne Bay Campus is named in his honor, City of Miami Cemetery University Park houses almost all of the university's colleges and schools as well as all the administrative offices and main university facilities University Park is also home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential House the home of FIU's president the Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Frost Art Museum the International Hurricane Research Center and the university's athletic facilities such as FIU Stadium FIU Arena and the FIU Baseball Stadium. . . ; On 7 June 2006 Florida's wildlife commission voted to take the manatee off the state's endangered species list Some environmentalists worry that this could erode safeguards for the popular sea creature, After Frank Borman became president of Eastern Airlines in 1975 he moved Eastern's headquarters from Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan New York City to an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Around 1991 the Miami-Dade County lost a few corporations including Eastern Airlines which folded in 1991. The college sports teams of Barry University Florida Atlantic University Florida International University Nova Southeastern University and University of Miami. 7.4 Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Humans arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago Paleo-Indians came to Florida probably following large game that included giant sloths saber-toothed cats and spectacled bears They found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted for desert conditions However 6,500 years ago climate changes brought a wetter landscape; large animals became extinct in Florida and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted and became the Archaic peoples They conformed to the environmental changes and created many tools with the various resources available During the Late Archaic period the climate became wetter again and approximately 3000 BCE the rise of water tables allowed an increase in population and cultural activity Florida Indians developed into three distinct but similar cultures that were named for the bodies of water near where they were located: Okeechobee Caloosahatchee and Glades.
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