The Orange Bowl one of the major bowl games in the College Football Playoff of the NCAA is played at Hard Rock Stadium every winter the stadium has also hosted the Super Bowl; the Miami metro area has hosted the game a total of ten times (five times at the current Hard Rock Stadium and five at the Miami Orange Bowl) tying New Orleans for the most games; Architecture Northern Downtown Miami overlooking Interstate 95 12 Sister cities. The Florida panther is close to extinction a record 23 were killed in 2009 mainly by automobile collisions leaving about 100 individuals in the wild the Center for Biological Diversity and others have therefore called for a special protected area for the panther to be established Manatees are also dying at a rate higher than their reproduction American flamingos are rare to see in Florida due to being hunted in the 1900s where it was to a point considered completely extirpated Now the flamingos are reproducing toward making a comeback to South Florida since it is adamantly considered native to the state and also are now being protected! 1990s The island is mainly occupied by the Virginia Key Beach Park Miami Seaquarium Miami-Dade's Central District Wastewater Treatment Plant and the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Other facilities include the former Miami Marine Stadium the National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center and an office of the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, University of Miami founded in 1925, Other colleges and schools. Week of Welcome usually held the first or second week of the Fall semester holds many spirit events such as Trail of the Torch Trail of the Torch is another university tradition that has continued to grow annually where a pep rally is held in the Housing Quad with music food giveaways and dancing After the pep rally the torch of knowledge is lit and blue and gold candles are distributed to the crowd for the procession around the campus trailing the torch from the Housing Quad to the torch in front of the Primera Casa building Rage Week and Homecoming Week are other major back-to-back spirit weeks held in the Fall semester They include the Homecoming Parade Greek Row parties Homecoming football game Blue/Gold Party pep rallies and other Panther Rage events.

In the 1870s the Challenger expedition discovered parts of what is now known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge or:. 2.4 Florida Reef Dunes Road, History In the era before the automobile took hold railroads played a key role in the state's development particular in coastal areas in 1884 the South Florida Railroad (later absorbed by Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) opened full service to Tampa in 1894 the Florida East Coast Railway reached West Palm Beach; in 1896 it reached Biscayne Bay near Miami, LATAM Chile Punta Cana Santiago de Chile 2004 47.1% 3,583,544 52.1% 3,964,522; . (Broward County) 1,623,018 1,748,066 1,951,260 +11.62% The school district is currently being monitored by the Florida Department of Education due to having extremely low monetary reserves Since Carvalho's appointment reserves have increased from 0.5% to 1.3% of the operating budget; however this is well below the 5% recommended practice.[citation needed]. The 1980s and '90s also brought the genre of high energy Miami bass to dance floors and car subwoofers throughout the country Miami bass spawned artists like 2 Live Crew (featuring Uncle Luke) 95 South Tag Team 69 Boyz Quad City DJ's and Freak Nasty Examples of these songs are "Whoomp! (There it Is)" by Tag Team in 1993 "Tootsee Roll" by 69 Boyz in 1994 and "C'mon N' Ride it (The Train)" by the Quad City DJ's in 1996! Florida contains the highest percentage of people over 65 (17%) There were 186,102 military retirees living in the state in 2008 About two-thirds of the population was born in another state the second highest in the U.S. .