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This section is in list format but may read better as prose You can help by converting this section if appropriate Editing help is available (October 2018). Miami Florida Business directory, The poverty rate in Florida is 14% in 2018 This is down from a peak of 17.1% in 2012. Culture Pan Am's terminal at Dinner Key in 1944 during World War II.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Miami Science Classroom Complex 2012 1970 6,789,443 37.1% Florida has the largest collection of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in both the United States and the entire world most of which are located in the Miami metropolitan area especially Miami Beach's Art Deco District constructed as the city was becoming a resort destination a unique architectural design found only in Florida is the post-World War II Miami Modern which can be seen in areas such as Miami's MiMo Historic District, Americans of English descent and Americans of Scots-Irish descent began moving into northern Florida from the backwoods of Georgia and South Carolina Though technically not allowed by the Spanish authorities and the Floridan government they were never able to effectively police the border region and the backwoods settlers from the United States would continue to immigrate into Florida unchecked These migrants mixing with the already present British settlers who had remained in Florida since the British period would be the progenitors of the population known as Florida Crackers. 1 Early settlement The military penetration of southern Florida offered the opportunity to map a poorly understood and largely unknown part of the country an 1840 expedition into the Everglades offered the first printed account for the general public to read about the Everglades the anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing:. In the 1980s Miami became one of the United States' largest transshipment point for cocaine from Colombia Bolivia and Peru the drug industry brought billions of dollars into Miami which were quickly funneled through front organizations into the local economy Luxury car dealerships five-star hotels condominium developments swanky nightclubs major commercial developments and other signs of prosperity began rising all over the city As the money arrived so did a violent crime wave that lasted through the early 1990s the popular television program Miami Vice which dealt with counter-narcotics agents in an idyllic upper-class rendition of Miami spread the city's image as one of America's most glamorous subtropical paradises. Aeronaves TSM City served Code Airport name FAA, 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, Planned water recovery and storage implementation using CERP strategies. See also: Culture of Florida. Roosevelt Gardens, 9 Environmental issues Humans arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago Paleo-Indians came to Florida probably following large game that included giant sloths saber-toothed cats and spectacled bears They found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted for desert conditions However 6,500 years ago climate changes brought a wetter landscape; large animals became extinct in Florida and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted and became the Archaic peoples They conformed to the environmental changes and created many tools with the various resources available During the Late Archaic period the climate became wetter again and approximately 3000 BCE the rise of water tables allowed an increase in population and cultural activity Florida Indians developed into three distinct but similar cultures that were named for the bodies of water near where they were located: Okeechobee Caloosahatchee and Glades, 1.4 Reconstruction era and end of the 19th century.