The Central business district (CBD) better known by locals as simply just "Downtown" is the historic center of Miami and what is traditionally called "Downtown" Downtown is bound by NE 6th St to the north Biscayne Bay to the east the Miami River to the west and south Within this area is where the majority of Miami's historic buildings are the main shopping street Flagler Street museums libraries offices schools and colleges as well as the vast majority of local county state and federal government offices and courthouses Miami Historic District and Government Center are also located within the CBD, Names Biltmore Hotel, The Bahamas Bahamas See also: List of colleges and universities in Florida List of high schools in Florida and List of school districts in Florida. . British surveyor John Gerard de Brahm who mapped the coast of Florida in 1773 called the area "River Glades" Both Marjory Stoneman Douglas and linguist Wallace McMullen suggest that cartographers substituted "Ever" for "River".[clarification needed] the name "Everglades" first appeared on a map in 1823 although it was also spelled as "Ever Glades" as late as 1851 the Seminole call it Pahokee meaning "Grassy Water." the region was labeled "Pa-hai-okee" on a U.S military map from 1839 although it had earlier been called "Ever Glades" throughout the Second Seminole War. Households and families: There were 2,338,450 households the average household size was 2.6 people Families made up 65% of the households in the Miami area This figure includes both married-couple families (45%) and other families (20%) Nonfamily households made up 35% of all households in Miami Most of the nonfamily households were people living alone but some consisted of people living in households in which no one was related to the householder, Miami Florida Business directory, Former concourses See also: Mariel boatlift Understanding the time structure of an area Some societies are more focused on timeliness ("being on time") while others focus on doing business at "the right time".
. ; Tunnel and Deep Dredge Miami Circle Brickell Main article: Everglades National Park, 1984 34.7% 1,448,816 65.3% 2,730,350 11.1.3 Public school zoning. Major league teams Plans are currently underway for a 1,700-student preparatory school in Brickell at 1742 SW 2nd Avenue named "Brickell Preparatory Academy" Other private schools in Downtown are:; Locally known as Downtown the area is a cultural financial and commercial center of South Florida tracing its present-day history back to the 19th century in recent years Downtown Miami has grown and physically expanded to become the fastest-growing area in Miami with rapid increase in population and the greatest concentration of high-rises in the region Greater Downtown is home to many major museums parks education centers banks company headquarters courthouses government offices theaters shops and many of the oldest buildings in the city! ; Formative and sustaining processes 11.3 Colleges and universities Westview 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! .
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