National When the first Europeans visited in the mid-1500s the inhabitants of the Miami area were the Tequesta people who controlled an area covering much of southeastern Florida including what is now Miami-Dade County Broward County and the southern parts of Palm Beach County the Tequesta Indians fished hunted and gathered the fruit and roots of plants for food but did not practice any form of agriculture They buried the small bones of the deceased but put the larger bones in a box for the village people to see the Tequesta are credited with making the Miami Circle, U.S Historic district See also: List of companies based in Miami. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay is a part of Florida's interstate system, Student organizations Water quality, The geology of South Florida together with a warm wet subtropical climate provides conditions well-suited for a large marshland ecosystem Layers of porous and permeable limestone create water-bearing rock and soil that affect the climate weather and hydrology of South Florida the properties of the rock underneath the Everglades can be explained by the geologic history of the state the crust underneath Florida was at one point part of the African region of the supercontinent Gondwana About 300 million years ago North America merged with Africa connecting Florida with North America Volcanic activity centered on the eastern side of Florida covered the prevalent sedimentary rock with igneous rock Continental rifting began to separate North America from Gondwana about 180 million years ago When Florida was part of Africa it was initially above water but during the cooler Jurassic Period the Florida Platform became a shallow marine environment in which sedimentary rocks were deposited Through the Cretaceous Period most of Florida remained a tropical sea floor of varying depths the peninsula has been covered by seawater at least seven times since the bedrock formed. The Central Terminal consists of three concourses labeled E F and G with a combined total of 52 gates the Miami-Dade Aviation Department began a three-year $657 million renovation of the terminal in November 2015 to include a new train in Concourse E and new gates and ticket counters the airport authority plans to demolish and replace the terminal in stages between 2025 and 2036 while funding upgrades to keep the facilities usable in the interim, Per capita GDP in 2017 was $39,842 ranking fortieth in the nation Per capita income varies widely by geographic region and profession North Florida and the rural counties of the Florida Panhandle are the most impoverished in the state Florida has a poverty rate of 14.0% the seventeenth lowest of any state in the country Many coastal cities include some of the wealthiest per-capita areas in the United States, Bass Museum of Art Miami Beach. . !
Street grid Barry University has more than 60 student organizations two fraternities and one sorority honor societies and a student government South Miami Heights. Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II. As of 2010 70.2% of Miami's population age five and over spoke only Spanish at home while 22.7% of the population spoke English at home About 6.3% spoke other Indo-European languages at home About 0.4% spoke Asian languages or Pacific Islander languages/Oceanic languages at home the remaining 0.3% of the population spoke other languages at home in total 77.3% spoke another language other than English, What is now Virginia Key was the southern end of a barrier island that extended from the New River inlet in Fort Lauderdale to just north of Key Biscayne Early accounts by Spanish explorers indicated the existence of one or more inlets somewhere on the long spit of land enclosing the northern end of Biscayne Bay but such inlets open and close over time At the beginning of the 19th century there was no inlet through the barrier island between the New River Inlet and Bear Cut at the northern end of Key Biscayne Hurricanes in 1835 and 1838 opened a new inlet Narrows Cut (now known as Norris Cut) separating Virginia Key from what is now Fisher Island at the south end of Miami Beach.
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