. BB&T Center home of the Florida Panthers, Port Tampa Bay is the largest port in Florida, Florida overall was ranked the 7th best state in America for educating students at all levels by U.S News & World Report in 2018. Times/WSJ 501-600 (52) 2.75 1.2 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement. 2.3 1950s to 1970s, 4 Formative and sustaining processes 4.3 Occupation Income and Industries Beginnings (1800s); Second in power and number to the Calusa in South Florida were the Tequesta They occupied the southeastern portion of the lower peninsula in modern-day Dade and Broward counties Like the Calusa the Tequesta societies centered on the mouths of rivers Their main village was probably on the Miami River or Little River Spanish depictions of the Tequesta state that they were greatly feared by sailors who suspected them of torturing and killing survivors of shipwrecks With an increasing European presence in south Florida Native Americans from the Keys and other areas began increasing their trips to Cuba Official permission for the immigration of Native Americans from the Florida Keys was granted by Cuban officials in 1704 Spanish priests attempted to set up missions in 1743 but noted that the Tequesta were under assault from a neighboring tribe When only 30 members were left they were removed to Havana a British surveyor in 1770 described multiple deserted villages in the region where the Tequesta lived Common descriptions of Native Americans in Florida by 1820 used only the term "Seminoles". Military According to the U.S Census Bureau the county has an area of 2,431 square miles (6,300 km2) of which 1,898 square miles (4,920 km2) is land and 533 square miles (1,380 km2) (21.9%) is water It is the third-largest county in Florida by land area and second-largest by total area Most of the water is in the Biscayne Bay with another significant portion in the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Other 135 0.00% Source: PRISM Climate Group.
According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center Christianity is the most prevalently practiced religion in Miami (68%) with 39% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered Protestant and 27% professing Roman Catholic beliefs followed by Judaism (8%); Islam Buddhism Hinduism and a variety of other religions have smaller followings; atheism or no self-identifying organized religious affiliation was practiced by 24%. History Tri-Rail also services the county, 8 Government and infrastructure The third-costliest natural disaster to occur in the United States was Hurricane Andrew which hit Miami in the early morning of Monday August 24 1992 it struck the southern part of the county from due east south of Miami and very near Homestead Kendall and Cutler Ridge (now the Town of Cutler Bay) Damages numbered over US$25 billion in the county alone and recovery has taken years in these areas where the destruction was greatest This was the costliest natural disaster in US history until Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf region in 2005, Hymer's second phase is his neoclassical article in 1968 that includes a theory of internationalization and explains the direction of growth of the international expansion of firms In a later stage Hymer went to a more Marxist approach where he explains that MNC as agents of an international capitalist system causing conflict and contradictions causing among other things inequality and poverty in the world Hymer is the "father of the theory of MNEs" and explains the motivations for companies doing direct business abroad. Following the demise of Eastern Air Lines in 1991 the concourse was used by a variety of Latin American carriers Many of these airlines' flights would arrive at Concourse B and then be towed to Concourse C for departure By the end of the decade the construction of American's baggage sorting facility between Concourses C and D saw the closure of all gates on the west side of the concourse with Gate C1 following soon afterward From the 2000s (decade) on the concourse consisted of just four domestic-only gates each of which were capable of accommodating small-to-medium jet aircraft from the Boeing 737 up to the Airbus A300 and American was the sole tenant. Water Hamilton Disston's land sale notice, 13.1 Office towers Presidents, SR 878 North Terminal (Blue). The following table shows the major professional and Division I college teams in the Miami area with an average attendance of more than 10,000:. . The district is the second-largest minority-majority public school system in the country as of 2012 62% of MDCPS students were of Hispanic origin (of any race) 25% Black 10% Non-Hispanic White 3% other and multiracial Of the students enrolled in MDCPS 54% spoke Spanish at home 5% spoke Haitian Creole and less than 1% spoke French and Portuguese at home 45% of students were enrolled in bilingual Spanish language programs and an additional 23% were enrolled in other bilingual programs in French German Italian Mandarin Portuguese and Haitian Creole, Florida's nickname is the "Sunshine State" but severe weather is a common occurrence in the state Central Florida is known as the lightning capital of the United States as it experiences more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the country Florida has one of the highest average precipitation levels of any state in large part because afternoon thunderstorms are common in much of the state from late spring until early autumn a narrow eastern part of the state including Orlando and Jacksonville receives between 2,400 and 2,800 hours of sunshine annually the rest of the state including Miami receives between 2,800 and 3,200 hours annually. 11.3 Colleges and universities The Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball play at Marlins Park in Little Havana.
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