Miami's Brickell neighborhood is amongst the fastest-growing areas of Miami-Dade County[citation needed], Downtown is South Florida's main hub for finance commerce and international business Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S. AstraZeneca's Latin American headquarters The Miami accent is based on a fairly standard American accent but with some changes very similar to dialects in the Mid-Atlantic (especially the New York area dialect Northern New Jersey English and New York Latino English.) Unlike Virginia Piedmont Coastal Southern American and Northeast American dialects the "Miami accent" is rhotic; it also incorporates a rhythm and pronunciation heavily influenced by Spanish (wherein rhythm is syllable-timed). Juno Beach Most of the western fringes of the city border the Everglades a tropical marshland covering most of the southern portion of Florida Alligators that live in the marshes have ventured into Miami communities and onto major highways, West Little River, Sarasota metropolitan area 8 See also. Endangered marine species include the manatee seals sea lions turtles and whales Drift net fishing can kill dolphins albatrosses and other seabirds (petrels auks) hastening the fish stock decline and contributing to international disputes Municipal pollution comes from the eastern United States southern Brazil and eastern Argentina; oil pollution in the Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico Lake Maracaibo Mediterranean Sea and North Sea; and industrial waste and municipal sewage pollution in the Baltic Sea North Sea and Mediterranean Sea; Another major economic engine in Florida is the United States military There are 24 military bases in the state housing three Unified Combatant Commands; United States Central Command in Tampa United States Southern Command in Doral and United States Special Operations Command in Tampa Some 109,390 U.S military personnel stationed in Florida contributing directly and indirectly $52 billion a year to the state's economy, Main articles: New Spain Spanish Florida French and Indian War Treaty of Paris (1763) West Florida East Florida Indian Reserve (1763) American Revolutionary War Gulf Coast campaign Treaty of Paris (1783) and Spanish West Florida, Lake Park Drainage. Modesto A Maidique assumed the presidency at FIU in 1986 becoming the fourth in the university's history Maidique graduated with a Bachelor of Science Master of Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before joining the private sector He held academic appointments from MIT Harvard and Stanford Universities and has been named to several US Presidential boards and committees. The same year the park was dedicated two hurricanes and the wet season caused 100 inches (250 cm) to fall on South Florida Although there were no human casualties agricultural interests lost approximately $59 million in 1948 Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes (C&SF) which divided the Everglades into basins in the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) and the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee in the southern Everglades was Everglades National Park Levees and pumping stations bordered each WCA and released water in dryer times or removed it and pumped it to the ocean in times of flood the WCAs took up approximately 37 percent of the original Everglades the C&SF constructed over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of canals and hundreds of pumping stations and levees within three decades During the 1950s and 1960s the Miami metropolitan area grew four times as fast as the rest of the nation Between 1940 and 1965 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1,000 people moved to Miami every week Developed areas between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s quadrupled Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. . Source: PRISM Climate Group Miami Florida Business directory Uneven limestone formations in an Everglades sawgrass prairie.
. . Booker T Washington High School founded in 1926, Miami, officially the City of Miami is an American city that is the seat of Miami-Dade County and is the cultural economic and financial center of South Florida the city covers an area of about 56 square miles (150 km2) between the Everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east Miami is the sixth most densely populated major city in the United States with an estimated 2018 population of 470,914 the Miami metropolitan area is home to 6.1 million people the second-most populous in the southeastern United States and the seventh-largest in the nation the city has the third tallest skyline in the U.S with over 300 high-rises 55 of which exceed 490 ft (149 m), Hurricane Charley in 2004 moving ashore on South Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast. Libertarian 1,817 0.12% Florida contains the highest percentage of people over 65 (17%) There were 186,102 military retirees living in the state in 2008 About two-thirds of the population was born in another state the second highest in the U.S. Maryland House of Delegates, In the year ending January 31 2018 the airport had 413,692 aircraft operations average 1,133 per day: 87% scheduled commercial 9% air taxi 4% general aviation and <1% military the budget for operations was $600 million in 2009.
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