(221) 7.11 14 Plantation Broward 82,934 84,955 94,288 +10.99% 1 Names 2.1 Expansion, See also: Culture of Florida FIU also has other smaller regional centers located throughout South Florida in both Miami-Dade County and Broward County serving the local communities in research continuing studies and in culture in Broward County there is the FIU Pines Center in Pembroke Pines opened to satisfy the demand from Broward County residents This center serves mostly night students in programs within the College of Business Administration in Miami-Dade County there are four regional FIU facilities the Downtown Miami Center the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach (Washington Avenue and 10th St) the FIU-Florida Memorial research center in Miami Gardens and a research site in Homestead; The first permanent European settlers in the Miami area arrived around 1800 Pedro Fornells a Menorcan survivor of the New Smyrna colony moved to Key Biscayne to meet the terms of his Royal Grant for the island Although he returned with his family to St Augustine after six months he left a caretaker behind on the island On a trip to the island in 1803 Fornells had noted the presence of squatters on the mainland across Biscayne Bay from the island in 1825 U.S Marshal Waters Smith visited the Cape Florida Settlement (which was on the mainland) and conferred with squatters who wanted to obtain title to the land they were occupying on the mainland the Bahamian "squatters" had settled along the coast beginning in the 1790s John Egan had also received a grant from Spain during the Second Spanish Period John's son James Egan his wife Rebecca Egan his widow Mary "Polly" Lewis and Mary's brother-in-law Jonathan Lewis all received 640-acre land grants from the U.S. in present-day Miami Temple Pent and his family did not receive a land grant but nevertheless stayed in the area. ; Climate Central Atlantic Wet prairies are slightly elevated like sawgrass marshes but with greater plant diversity the surface is covered in water only three to seven months of the year and the water is on average shallow at only 4 inches (10 cm) deep When flooded the marl can support a variety of water plants Solution holes or deep pits where the limestone has worn away may remain flooded even when the prairies are dry and they support aquatic invertebrates such as crayfish and snails and larval amphibians which feed young wading birds These regions tend to border between sloughs and sawgrass marshes. 2 Twentieth century Lantana Ziff Ballet Opera House Drainage Twentieth century PortMiami is the world's busiest cruise ship port and is headquarters to many of the world's largest cruise companies From left to right: Hapag-Lloyd Europa Norwegian Sky Oceania Nautica Carnival Valor Carnival Imagination Carnival Liberty Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas MV Explorer. Map of racial/ethnic distribution in Miami 2010 U.S Census Each dot is 25 people: Non-Hispanic White Hispanic Black Asian. A sign advertising the completion of the Herbert Hoover Dike, The South Florida recording industry started in Miami in the 1950s with Criteria Studios recording top selling albums such as Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and Hotel California by the Eagles Local music entrepreneur Henry Stone and his label TK Records created the local indie scene in the 1970s T K Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright George McCrae and Jimmy "Bo" Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits many influenced by Caribbean music Tom Dowd an innovator in music engineering worked out of Miami for many years and worked with a plethora of artists including Aretha Franklin Ray Charles Eric Clapton Lynyrd Skynyrd Tom Petty also came out of South Florida; Hispanic American Plantation 84,955 82,934 Broward See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami-Dade County Florida.
. A view of Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County, France 507,000,000 488,825,071.86 3.31 3.68 Lantana 7.2 Old World, School of Computing and Information Sciences The same year the park was dedicated two hurricanes and the wet season caused 100 inches (250 cm) to fall on South Florida Although there were no human casualties agricultural interests lost approximately $59 million in 1948 Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes (C&SF) which divided the Everglades into basins in the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) and the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee in the southern Everglades was Everglades National Park Levees and pumping stations bordered each WCA and released water in dryer times or removed it and pumped it to the ocean in times of flood the WCAs took up approximately 37 percent of the original Everglades the C&SF constructed over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of canals and hundreds of pumping stations and levees within three decades During the 1950s and 1960s the Miami metropolitan area grew four times as fast as the rest of the nation Between 1940 and 1965 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1,000 people moved to Miami every week Developed areas between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s quadrupled Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. The Miami Masters is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Premier tennis event whereas the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships is an ATP World Tour 250 event, 4.3 Fire Allyson Maynard Gibson 1975 Attorney General of the Bahamas CR 9823 Northwest 67th Avenue! Miami-Dade County Public Schools is one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional international studies programs and bilingual education Bilingual education is offered in Spanish French German Haitian Creole and Mandarin Chinese M-DCPS is the only school district in Florida to offer bilingual education in Mandarin. .
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