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Average maximum and minimum levels of rainfall for the lower east coast of Florida from 1918 to 1985! (15.8) 63.1 The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral Florida a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area several miles west of downtown Miami Founded in 1903 it is the second largest newspaper[citation needed] in South Florida serving Miami-Dade Broward and Monroe Counties it also circulates throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Hispanic Business (since 1998) and Hispanic Trends (since 2003) have placed the College of Business among the top 25 business schools for Hispanics in 2008 it was ranked #8, See also: Law of Florida. Initial attempts at developing agriculture near Lake Okeechobee were successful but the nutrients in the peat were rapidly removed In a process called soil subsidence oxidation of peat causes loss of volume Bacteria decompose dead sawgrass slowly underwater without oxygen When the water was drained in the 1920s and bacteria interacted with oxygen an aerobic reaction occurred Microorganisms degraded the peat into carbon dioxide and water Some of the peat was burned by settlers to clear the land Some homes built in the areas of early farms had to have their foundations moved to stilts as the peat deteriorated; other areas lost approximately 8 feet (2.4 m) of soil depth, The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 10,000 years ago the region was filled with pine hardwood forests and was home to plenty of deer bear and wild fowl These first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River with their main villages on the northern banks These early Native Americans created a variety of weapons and tools from shells. In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it, The island was named by Frederick H Gerdes of the United States Coast Survey in 1849 He noted that the island north of Key Biscayne had no name and had not existed as an island until 'Narrows Cut' had broken through "ten or twelve" years before (i.e the hurricane of 1835 or 1838) He described Virginia Key as three miles (5 km) long and one mile (1.6 km) wide (later as five miles (8 km) long and one-and-a-half miles wide) with a fine Atlantic beach but mostly covered with mangroves, 1960 1,497,099 115.8% Dry season 17.4 inches (44 cm) 30.9 inches (78 cm) 7.3 inches (19 cm). 17 External links, Colleges and universities 2 In popular culture, FIU offers 191 academic programs 60 baccalaureate programs 81 master's programs 3 specialist programs 34 doctoral programs and 4 professional program in 23 colleges and schools in addition 97% of the faculty have terminal degrees and 50% currently have tenure at the university with a student/teacher ratio of 27:1. ! (41) 2.03 In recent years[when?] Miami has promoted the arts business and the performing arts such as the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts the second-largest performing arts center in the U.S Other projects include the new Miami Marlins Stadium Miami Streetcar Port of Miami Tunnel and Museum Park which includes the Miami Art Museum and the Miami Science Museum.

Miami Jewelry District 15 Miami Beach Miami-Dade 87,933 87,779 91,718 +4.49%, In 2000 FIU became the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter the country's oldest and most distinguished academic honor society FIU is one of only 78 universities nationwide to hold both designations. The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S state of Florida comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the neotropic ecozone the ecosystem it forms is not presently found anywhere else on earth the system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river 60 miles (97 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long flowing southward across a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state the Everglades experience a wide range of weather patterns from frequent flooding in the wet season to drought in the dry season the Seminole Tribe gave the large body of water the name Okeechobee meaning "River of Grass" to describe the sawgrass marshes part of a complex system of interdependent ecosystems that include cypress swamps the estuarine mangrove forests of the Ten Thousand Islands tropical hardwood hammocks pine rockland and the marine environment of Florida Bay Throughout the 20th century the Everglades suffered significant loss of habitat and environmental degradation, Arts & Entertainment District Brickell Coconut Grove Coral Way Downtown Miami Edgewater Midtown Miami Park West and the Upper Eastside.