1998 44.7% 1,773,054 55.3% 2,191,105 Education Coral Springs 121,096 117,549 Broward There are more than 40 buildings at the Miami Shores campus These contain technology laboratories and indoor and outdoor sporting facilities. . 2000s: a new era See also: List of amusement parks in Greater Orlando List of shopping malls in the Miami metropolitan area and List of casinos in Florida. Marlins Park home of the Miami Marlins FIU has many traditions from student spirit groups alumni association events and student spirit events Panther Rage one of FIU's largest student spirit groups are seen at all the athletics events. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice operates the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center in an unincorporated area in the county Florida has 22 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Forty-three of Florida's 67 counties are in a MSA. Raising awareness of the inter-relatedness of one country's political policies and economic practices on another; Miami International University of Art & Design (private).

3% Miami is also home to Paso Fino horses and competitions are held at Tropical Park Equestrian Center. . 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, View of the airport, Miami Florida Business directory Several ecosystems are present in the Everglades and boundaries between them are subtle or absent the primary feature of the Everglades is the sawgrass marsh the iconic water and sawgrass combination in the shallow river 100 miles (160 km) long and 60 miles (97 km) wide that spans from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is often referred to as the "true Everglades" or just "the Glades" Prior to the first drainage attempts in 1905 the sheetflow occupied nearly a third of the lower Florida peninsula Sawgrass thrives in the slowly moving water but may die in unusually deep floods if oxygen is unable to reach its roots It is particularly vulnerable immediately after a fire the hydroperiod for the marsh is at least nine months and can last longer Where sawgrass grows densely few animals or other plants live although alligators choose these locations for nesting Where there is more room periphyton grows Periphyton supports larval insects and amphibians which in turn are consumed as food by birds fish and reptiles it also absorbs calcium from water which adds to the calcitic composition of the marl. . Jacksonville 18/6 20/7 23/10 26/13 30/17 32/21 33/23 33/23 31/21 27/16 23/11 19/7 In the 1980s Miami started to see an increase in immigrants from other nations such as Haiti As the Haitian population grew in Miami the area known today as "Little Haiti" emerged centered on Northeast Second Avenue and 54th Street in 1985 Xavier Suarez was elected as Mayor of Miami becoming the first Cuban mayor of a major city in the 1990s the presence of Haitians was acknowledged with Haitian Creole language signs in public places and ballots during voting. Demographics Fremd Village-Padgett Island 10.2 Higher education Personal income The high surface salinity in the Atlantic on which the Atlantic thermohaline circulation is dependent is maintained by two processes: the Agulhas Leakage/Rings which brings salty Indian Ocean waters into the South Atlantic and the "Atmospheric Bridge" which evaporates subtropical Atlantic waters and exports it to the Pacific. .