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The Anthony J Catanese Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions at Florida Atlantic University notes the unusual growth pattern of South Florida Unlike many areas with centralized cities surrounded by development most of South Florida is preserved natural area and designated agricultural reserves with development restricted to a dense narrow strip along the coast the developed area is highly urbanized and increasingly continuous and decentralized with no particular dominant core cities the center projects this pattern to continue in the future. Miami Florida Business directory KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam The Glenn Hubert Library previously named the 'Biscayne Bay Library' is the library for the Biscayne Bay Campus Although a smaller structure three stories the Hubert Library is nonetheless important to the research and information needs of the BBC Campus students and faculty All services at the Green Library are available in the Hubert Library. Source 1 Area Tourism is one of the Miami's largest private-sector industries accounting for more than 144,800 jobs in Miami-Dade County the city's frequent portrayal in music film and popular culture has made the city and its landmarks recognizable worldwide in 2016 it attracted the second-highest number of foreign tourists of any city in the United States after New York City and is among the top 20 cities worldwide by international visitor spending More than 15.9 million visitors arrived in Miami in 2017 adding US$26.1 billion to the economy With a large hotel infrastructure and the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center Miami is a popular destination for annual conventions and conferences; . The area from Orlando to the tip of the Florida peninsula was at one point a single drainage unit When rainfall exceeded the capacity of Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River floodplain it spilled over and flowed in a southwestern direction to empty into Florida Bay Prior to urban and agricultural development in Florida the Everglades began at the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee and flowed for approximately 100 miles (160 km) emptying into the Gulf of Mexico the limestone shelf is wide and slightly angled instead of having a narrow deep channel characteristic of most rivers the vertical gradient from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is about 2 inches (5.1 cm) per mile creating an almost 60-mile (97 km) wide expanse of river that travels about half a mile (0.8 km) a day This slow movement of a broad shallow river is known as sheetflow and gives the Everglades its nickname River of Grass Water leaving Lake Okeechobee may require months or years to reach its final destination Florida Bay the sheetflow travels so slowly that water is typically stored from one wet season to the next in the porous limestone substrate the ebb and flow of water has shaped the land and every ecosystem in South Florida throughout the Everglades' estimated 5,000 years of existence the motion of water defines plant communities and how animals adapt to their habitats and food sources!

The land seemed to inspire extreme reactions of both wonder or hatred During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote "It is in fact a most hideous region to live in a perfect paradise for Indians alligators serpents frogs and every other kind of loathsome reptile." in 1897 explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River He sent his observations to the New Orleans Times-Democrat Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome with numerous springs and 10,000 alligators "more or less" in Lake Okeechobee the party encountered thousands of birds near the Shark River "killing hundreds but they continued to return" Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida writing "(w)e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa."; American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.2%, With the rise of sea levels that occurred during the Pleistocene approximately 17,000 years ago the runoff of water from Lake Okeechobee slowed and created the vast marshland that is now known as the Everglades Slower runoff also created an accumulation of almost 18 feet (5.5 m) of peat in the area the presence of such peat deposits dated to about 5,000 years ago is evidence that widespread flooding had occurred by then, Bahama Banks University of Miami founded in 1925. . 4.2.2 Voter registration Indie/folk acts Cat Power and Iron & Wine are based in the city while alternative hip hop artist Sage Francis electro artist Uffie and the electroclash duo Avenue D were born in Miami but musically based elsewhere. Economy Ice hockey: Miami Matadors (ECHL) Miami Screaming Eagles (WHA) Miami Manatees (WHA2), Miami Florida Business directory Hard Rock Stadium home of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL and plays host to the Miami Hurricanes.