. 1900s to 1930s: the Magic City, Geology In a tropical hardwood hammock trees are very dense and diverse, Growth as a global city The Miami-Dade Police Department is a full-service metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas although it has lenient mutual aid agreements with other municipalities most often the City of Miami Police Department With 4,700 employees it is Florida's largest police department the Department is often referred to by its former name the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro. . . Miami Florida Business directory, 2.1 Facilities and aircraft Toll Florida 869.svg State Road 869 (Sawgrass Expressway), Calusa and Tequesta Race ethnicity religion and languages Regions. Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992 Dade County was commended for its speed at rebuilding and reopening schools Most schools reopened within two weeks of the storm and students who attended schools that had been completely destroyed were quickly displaced with free and efficient bus transportation the district also used funding from the disaster to redo its entire curriculum adding sex education to elementary schools and foreign language programs to middle schools it opened fully funded magnet schools such as Coral Reef High School and Southwood Middle School which take in students from all over the county based on school performance (some schools are partial magnets which also enroll students from surrounding neighborhoods while some are full magnets that only take students based on merit) the district also re-opened Coral Way Elementary as its first bilingual school which teaches its curriculum in both English and Spanish.
Miami's main four sports teams are the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball and the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League Starting 2020 the city will be home to Inter Miami CF of the Major League Soccer led by David Beckham Simon Fuller and Marcelo Claure the Miami Open an annual tennis tournament was previously held in Key Biscayne before moving to Hard Rock Stadium after the tournament was purchased by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross in 2019 the city is home to numerous greyhound racing tracks marinas jai alai venues and golf courses the city streets have hosted professional auto races in the past most notably the open-wheel Grand Prix of Miami and the sports car Grand Prix of Miami the Homestead-Miami Speedway oval hosts NASCAR races. At the end of his life he was appointed as governor of Cuba shortly after his arrival He died in Santander Spain on 17 September 1574. Treasure hunters from the Bahamas and the Keys came to South Florida to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Great Florida reef some of whom accepted Spanish land offers along the Miami River at about the same time the Seminole Indians arrived along with a group of runaway slaves in 1825 the Cape Florida Lighthouse was built on nearby Key Biscayne to warn passing ships of the dangerous reefs. . It is South Florida's main airport for long-haul international flights and a hub for the Southeastern United States with passenger and cargo flights to cities throughout the Americas Europe Africa and Western Asia as well as cargo flights to East Asia It is the largest gateway between the United States and south to Latin America and is one of the largest airline hubs in the United States owing to its proximity to tourist attractions local economic growth large local Latin American and European populations and strategic location to handle connecting traffic between North America Latin America and Europe.
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