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. ; . ; . Sandalfoot Cove Map of the five major ocean gyres, Law Library Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa Miami-Dade is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora mostly in the Pleistocene, Hydrology 2 Neighborhoods Main article: Transportation in South Florida. 5 8671, In 2005 82% of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 28% had a bachelor's degree or higher Among people 16 to 19 years old 7% were dropouts; they were not enrolled in school and had not graduated from high school the total school enrollment in the Miami metro area was 1.4 million in 2005 Nursery school and kindergarten enrollment was 170,000 and elementary or high school enrollment was 879,000 College or graduate school enrollment was 354,000, Presidents Institutions provide services to ease the conduct of international business; South Bay Mangrove and Coastal prairie, 24% 1988 38.5% 1,656,701 60.9% 2,618,885.

Miami Florida Business directory, Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001, Map of the five major ocean gyres (24.8) 78.9 FIUSM.com is the FIU student-run media website since 2008 FIUSM.com publishes content generated by the Student Media team including text audio and video. The Castillo de San Marcos Originally white with red corners its design reflects the colors and shapes of the Cross of Burgundy and the subsequent Flag of Florida. Miami is the home to the National Hurricane Center and the headquarters of the United States Southern Command responsible for military operations in Central and South America Miami is also an industrial center especially for stone quarrying and warehousing These industries are centered largely on the western fringes of the city near Doral and Hialeah. Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30 although hurricanes can develop outside that period the most likely time for South Florida to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season mid-August through the end of September Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity South Florida is also statistically the most likely major area to be struck by a hurricane in the world trailed closely by Nassau Bahamas and Havana Cuba Many hurricanes have affected the metropolis including Betsy in 1965 Andrew in 1992 Irene in 1999 Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005 and Irma in 2017 in addition a tropical depression in October 2000 passed over the city causing record rainfall and flooding Locally the storm is credited as the No Name Storm of 2000 though the depression went on to become Tropical Storm Leslie upon entering the Atlantic Ocean.