Miami-Dade County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S state of Florida It is the southeasternmost county on the U.S mainland According to a 2018 census report the county had a population of 2,761,581 making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United States It is also Florida's third largest county in terms of land area with 1,946 square miles (5,040 km2) the county seat is Miami the principal city in South Florida. . . Although scientists made headway in decreasing mercury and phosphorus levels in water the natural environment of South Florida continued to decline in the 1990s and life in nearby cities reflected this downturn to address the deterioration of the Miami metropolitan area Governor Lawton Chiles commissioned a report on the sustainability of the area in 1995 Chiles published the commission's findings in a report that related the degradation of the Everglades ecosystems to the lower quality of life in urban areas the report noted past environmental abuses that brought the state to a position to make a decision Not acting to improve the South Florida ecosystem the report predicted would inevitably cause further and intolerable deterioration that would harm local tourism by 12,000 jobs and $200 million annually and commercial fishing by 3,300 jobs and $52 million annually Urban areas had grown beyond their capacities to sustain themselves Crowded cities were facing problems such as high crime rates traffic jams severely overcrowded schools and overtaxed public services; the report noted that water shortages were ironic given the 53 inches (130 cm) of rain the region received annually, As of the 2005 American Community Survey 5,334,685 people lived in the metropolis.
23rd President of Texas A&M University In 2011 there were about 9,000 retail gas stations in the state Floridians consumed 21 million gallons of gasoline daily in 2011 ranking it third in national use behind California and Texas Motorists have the 45th lowest rate of car insurance in the U.S 24% are uninsured. Mangonia Park, Iberia also established a Miami hub in 1992 positioning a fleet of DC-9 aircraft at MIA to serve destinations in Central America and the Caribbean the hub took advantage of rights granted under the 1991 bilateral aviation agreement between the United States and Spain However the September 11 2001 attacks made it necessary for many aliens to obtain a visa in order to transit the United States and as a result United Airlines and Iberia closed their hubs in 2004 Miami remains the most important hub between Europe and Latin America and today more European carriers serve MIA than any other airport in the United States except John F Kennedy International Airport in New York.[citation needed], The consistent Everglades flooding is fed by the extensive Kissimmee Caloosahatchee Miami Myakka and Peace Rivers in central Florida the Kissimmee River is a broad floodplain that empties directly into Lake Okeechobee which at 730 square miles (1,900 km2) with an average depth of 9 feet (2.7 m) is a vast but shallow lake Soil deposits in the Everglades basin indicate that peat is deposited where the land is flooded consistently throughout the year Calcium deposits are left behind when flooding is shorter the deposits occur in areas where water rises and falls depending on rainfall as opposed to water being stored in the rock from one year to the next Calcium deposits are present where more limestone is exposed. 6.4 Growth of urban areas, 1964 56.1% 933,554 41.3% 686,297, The story of Florida International University's founding began in 1943 when state Senator Ernest 'Cap' Graham (father of future Florida governor and U.S senator Bob Graham) presented the state legislature with the initial proposal for the establishment of a public university in South Florida While his bill did not pass Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues advising them of Miami's need for a state university He felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the city's growing population. School of Social Work, See also: List of U.S states by GDP.
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