In 1992 Hurricane Andrew caused more than $20 billion in damage just south of the Miami-Dade area; Rankings Mangonia Park, Airport IATA code ICAO code County Language barriers can affect transaction costs Linguistic distance is defined as the amount of variation one language has from another for example French and Spanish are both languages derived from Latin When evaluating dialogue in these languages you will discover many similarities However languages such as English and Chinese or English and Arabic vary much more strongly and contain far fewer similarities the writing systems of these languages are also different the larger the linguistic distance there the wider language barriers to cross These differences can reflect on transaction costs and make foreign business operations more expensive, Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492 under Spanish flag Six years later Vasco da Gama reached India under Portuguese flag by navigating south around the Cape of Good Hope thus proving that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans are connected in 1500 in his voyage to India following Vasco da Gama Pedro Alvares Cabral reached Brazil taken by the currents of the South Atlantic Gyre Following these explorations Spain and Portugal quickly conquered and colonized large territories in the New World and forced the Amerindian population into slavery in order to explore the vast quantities of silver and gold they found Spain and Portugal monopolized this trade in order to keep other European nations out but conflicting interests nevertheless led to a series of Spanish-Portuguese wars a peace treaty mediated by the Pope divided the conquered territories into Spanish and Portuguese sectors while keeping other colonial powers away England France and the Dutch Republic enviously watched the Spanish and Portuguese wealth grow and allied themselves with pirates such as Henry Mainwaring and Alexandre Exquemelin They could explore the convoys leaving the Americas because prevailing winds and currents made the transport of heavy metals slow and predictable. See also: List of Florida hurricanes and U.S state temperature extremes. ! Law government and politics, See also: Sports teams in Florida, Map showing 5 circles the first is between western Australia and eastern Africa the second is between eastern Australia and western South America the third is between Japan and western North America Of the two in the Atlantic one is in hemisphere; .
1 Major league teams, Rail transport in South Florida, Faculty of the PhD program in social welfare rank 4th in the United States in their scholarly accomplishment according to Academic Analytics FIU faculty were the only social work faculty in Florida to rank in the Top 10 (December 2007). . I-395 / SR 836 The Orange Bowl one of the major bowl games in the College Football Playoff of the NCAA is played at Hard Rock Stadium every winter the stadium has also hosted the Super Bowl; the Miami metro area has hosted the game a total of ten times (five times at the current Hard Rock Stadium and five at the Miami Orange Bowl) tying New Orleans for the most games. . . Prima Casa Montessori School Northwood University (private) 3.9 Construction and expansion Colleges and universities in and around Miami:. Colleges and universities Keiser University (private) Florida overall was ranked the 7th best state in America for educating students at all levels by U.S News & World Report in 2018, Biltmore Hotel Map of Caribbean showing seven approximately parallel westward-pointing arrows that extend from east of the Virgin Islands to Cuba the southern arrows bend northward just east of the Dominican Republic before straightening out again. The 2010 US Census reported that the Latino population in Miami accounted for 70% of its total population with 34.4% of city residents being of Cuban origin 15.8% had a Central American background (7.2% Nicaraguan 5.8% Honduran 1.2% Salvadoran and 1.0% Guatemalan) 8.7% were of South American descent (3.2% Colombian 1.4% Venezuelan 1.2% Peruvian 1.2% Argentinean and 0.7% Ecuadorian) 4.0% had other Hispanic or Latino origins (0.5% Spaniard) 3.2% descended from Puerto Ricans 2.4% were Dominican and 1.5% had Mexican ancestry.
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