. The Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association was formed in 1988 as an expansion team They have won three league championships (in 2006 2012 and 2013) and five conference titles, Wynwood Art District The influence of Cuban culture and music history on the music of South Florida is undeniable the 1997 hit album Buena Vista Social Club was performed by a group featuring former stars of the Havana nightclub scene it won a Grammy became a hit and was listed in 2003 by Rolling Stone magazine as #260 in the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, The Democratic Party has maintained an edge in voter registration both statewide and in 40 of the 67 counties including Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties the state's three most populous. Parkview Housing 2013 Beneath the plain lies the Biscayne Aquifer a natural underground source of fresh water that extends from southern Palm Beach County to Florida Bay it comes closest to the surface around the cities of Miami Springs and Hialeah Most of the Miami metropolitan area obtains its drinking water from the Biscayne Aquifer As a result of the aquifer it is not possible to dig more than 15 to 20 ft (5 to 6 m) beneath the city without hitting water which impedes underground construction though some underground parking garages exist for this reason the mass transit systems in and around Miami are elevated or at-grade. ! Native to southern Asia the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) is a relatively new invasive species in the Everglades This species can grow up to 20 feet (6.1 m) long and they compete with alligators for the top of the food chain Florida wildlife officials speculate that escaped pythons have begun reproducing in an environment for which they are well-suited in Everglades National Park alone agents removed more than 2,000 Burmese pythons from the park as of 2017 Federal authorities banned four species of exotic snakes including the Burmese python in 2012 the pythons are believed to be responsible for drastic decreases in the populations of some mammals within the park.
The island was named by Frederick H Gerdes of the United States Coast Survey in 1849 He noted that the island north of Key Biscayne had no name and had not existed as an island until 'Narrows Cut' had broken through "ten or twelve" years before (i.e the hurricane of 1835 or 1838) He described Virginia Key as three miles (5 km) long and one mile (1.6 km) wide (later as five miles (8 km) long and one-and-a-half miles wide) with a fine Atlantic beach but mostly covered with mangroves. Concourse F Plantation 84,955 82,934 Broward 4.1 Miami accent Concourse B, 2.3.2 Civil Rights Movement David Johnson c.?1990 Photographer Briny Breezes Miami River (221) 7.11 Lake Worth Tri-Rail. Recreation Center 2005 Main article: Arts & Entertainment District 7 Restoration Metrorail: Causeways SR 953 Le Jeune Roa ) (15.3) 66.9. Joining the United States; Indian removal 9 Media U.S Representative, Amtrak Silver Service to New York City. . Florida International University which has its main campus in nearby University Park has the largest enrollment of any university in South Florida and is one of the state's primary research universities, Broad Causeway North Miami and Bal Harbour 1951, Eventually the water from Lake Okeechobee and the Big Cypress makes its way to the ocean Mangrove trees are well adapted to the transitional zone of brackish water where fresh and salt water meet the estuarine ecosystem of the Ten Thousand Islands which is comprised almost completely of mangrove forests covers almost 200,000 acres (810 km2) in the wet season fresh water pours out into Florida Bay and sawgrass begins to grow closer to the coastline in the dry season and particularly in extended periods of drought the salt water creeps inland into the coastal prairie an ecosystem that buffers the freshwater marshes by absorbing sea water Mangrove trees begin to grow in fresh water ecosystems when the salt water goes far enough inland. . .
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