Formative and sustaining processes PortMiami is an important contributor to the local south Florida and state economies Over four million cruise passengers pass through the Port 7.4 million tons of cargo and over 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) (FY 2004/2005) of intermodal container traffic move through the seaport per year This combination of cruise and cargo activities supports approximately 176,000 jobs and has an economic impact in Miami-Dade County of over $17 billion $14 billion of which is generated by its cargo operations. J Miami attracts a large number of musicians singers actors dancers and orchestral players the city has numerous orchestras symphonies and performing art conservatories These include the Florida Grand Opera FIU School of Music Frost School of Music and the New World School of the Arts. University of Miami (private), What is now Virginia Key was the southern end of a barrier island that extended from the New River inlet in Fort Lauderdale to just north of Key Biscayne Early accounts by Spanish explorers indicated the existence of one or more inlets somewhere on the long spit of land enclosing the northern end of Biscayne Bay but such inlets open and close over time At the beginning of the 19th century there was no inlet through the barrier island between the New River Inlet and Bear Cut at the northern end of Key Biscayne Hurricanes in 1835 and 1838 opened a new inlet Narrows Cut (now known as Norris Cut) separating Virginia Key from what is now Fisher Island at the south end of Miami Beach, 6.2 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards.
This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The South Terminal consists of two concourses H and J with a combined total of 28 gates Downtown is also home to many international chambers of commerce these include:. . Concourse G Flora Sawgrass marshes and sloughs 1980 9,746,324 43.6% Virginia Key Beach Park. . Main article: Miami-Dade Transit Former headquarters of the Miami Herald. North Florida Psychology 148 Broward County Miami-Dade County Tri-Rail fare zone boundary, Future of the Everglades 1 Etymology. 10 Media See also: List of amusement parks in Greater Orlando List of shopping malls in the Miami metropolitan area and List of casinos in Florida, After the 2010 Haiti earthquake the district leadership anticipated that there would be thousands of survivors arriving that most students arriving would be poor and that most high school-aged students would be going to Miami Edison High School the district planned to establish housing for refugees at a Baptist hospital in Homestead by January 2011 there were 1,403 survivors from that earthquake enrolled at MCDPS which was below the predicted number and most of them were in the middle and upper classes the hospital was never needed the largest number of high school-aged students 88 enrolled at North Miami High School 51 enrolled at Felix Varela High School and only six enrolled at Miami Edison MDCPS had the highest number of 2010 Haiti earthquake survivors of any U.S school district, In 2014 the City of South Miami passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half with a northern boundary drawn to include the counties of Brevard Orange Polk Hillsborough and Pinellas (roughly the Tampa Bay and Orlando areas) in total the proposed State of South Florida would have included 24 counties.
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