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Climate 2 Geology Ten Thousand Islands Cuisine Tamarac 60,427 55,588 Broward Florida's primary and secondary school systems are administered by the Florida Department of Education School districts are organized within county boundaries Each school district has an elected Board of Education that sets policy budget goals and approves expenditures Management is the responsibility of a Superintendent of schools, View of the airport Total population 2,761,581 Western North Atlantic From October to June the surface is usually covered with sea ice in the Labrador Sea Denmark Strait and Baltic Sea. PortMiami is the world's largest cruise ship port and is the headquarters of many of the world's largest cruise companies, Stacy Street Perez Art Museum in Downtown Miami 3.4 International campuses. Key West Historic District Hydrology During the mid-2000s the city witnessed its largest real estate boom since the Florida land boom of the 1920s and the city had well over a hundred approved high-rise construction projects However only 50 were actually built Rapid high-rise construction led to fast population growth in the Miami's inner neighborhoods with Downtown Brickell and Edgewater becoming the fastest-growing areas of the city Miami's skyline is ranked third-most impressive in the U.S. behind New York City and Chicago and 19th in the world according to the Almanac of Architecture and Design the city currently has the seven tallest (as well as fifteen of top twenty) skyscrapers in the state of Florida with the tallest being the 868-foot (265 m) Panorama Tower. . 12 See also College of Business, 34.8% Outside of the U.S. Lamme and Oldakowski identify several demographic political and cultural elements that characterize South Florida and distinguish it from other areas of the state Many of its differences appear to be driven by its proportionately higher level of migration from the northern U.S states and from the Caribbean and Latin America particularly in the densely populated Miami area Politically South Florida is more liberal than the rest of the state While less than 10% of people in either North or Central Florida felt their area was liberal over a third of South Floridians described their region as such 38% characterized the area as conservative; 26% as moderate This tracks with South Florida's demographics and Lamme and Oldakowski's findings parallel Barney Warf and Cynthia Waddell's research on Florida's political geography during the 2000 Presidential election the economy in South Florida is very similar to that in Central Florida Compared to the more diversified economy in North Florida tourism is by far the most significant industry in South and Central Florida with a much smaller but vibrant agricultural industry. 3 Bathymetry Brickell Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard are the main north-south roads and Flagler Street is the main east-west road the neighborhood is defined by the Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA) as the 3.8-square-mile (9.8 km2)-area east of Interstate 95 between the Rickenbacker Causeway to the south and Julia Tuttle Causeway to the north. 1.3 Cor Jesu Chapel As rain continued to fall the slightly acidic rainwater dissolved the limestone as limestone wore away the groundwater came into contact with the land surface and created a massive wetland ecosystem Although the region appears flat weathering of the limestone created slight valleys and plateaus in some areas These plateaus rise and fall only a few inches but on the subtle South Florida topography these small variations affect both the flow of water and the types of vegetation that can take hold. 16 Deerfield Beach Broward 64,583 75,018 80,863 +7.79% South Atlantic, Invasive species Golden Glades Tri-Rail Greyhound Lines, Shuttered for two decades Virginia Key Beach was eroded by storms its buildings damaged and vandalized and park lands invaded by exotic plants and animals Beset by declining revenues some City officials began to speculate over schemes to sell off the development rights on Virginia Key as plans leaked a local coalition formed among Miami's grassroots activists protesting any commercial development and asking for a complete restoration and re-opening of Miami's largest park and only public park on the Atlantic Ocean the leadership at City Hall appointed an official community-based civil rights task force to provide a public forum for the park's future.

Several ecosystems are present in the Everglades and boundaries between them are subtle or absent the primary feature of the Everglades is the sawgrass marsh the iconic water and sawgrass combination in the shallow river 100 miles (160 km) long and 60 miles (97 km) wide that spans from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is often referred to as the "true Everglades" or just "the Glades" Prior to the first drainage attempts in 1905 the sheetflow occupied nearly a third of the lower Florida peninsula Sawgrass thrives in the slowly moving water but may die in unusually deep floods if oxygen is unable to reach its roots It is particularly vulnerable immediately after a fire the hydroperiod for the marsh is at least nine months and can last longer Where sawgrass grows densely few animals or other plants live although alligators choose these locations for nesting Where there is more room periphyton grows Periphyton supports larval insects and amphibians which in turn are consumed as food by birds fish and reptiles it also absorbs calcium from water which adds to the calcitic composition of the marl, Second in power and number to the Calusa in South Florida were the Tequesta They occupied the southeastern portion of the lower peninsula in modern-day Dade and Broward counties Like the Calusa the Tequesta societies centered on the mouths of rivers Their main village was probably on the Miami River or Little River Spanish depictions of the Tequesta state that they were greatly feared by sailors who suspected them of torturing and killing survivors of shipwrecks With an increasing European presence in south Florida Native Americans from the Keys and other areas began increasing their trips to Cuba Official permission for the immigration of Native Americans from the Florida Keys was granted by Cuban officials in 1704 Spanish priests attempted to set up missions in 1743 but noted that the Tequesta were under assault from a neighboring tribe When only 30 members were left they were removed to Havana a British surveyor in 1770 described multiple deserted villages in the region where the Tequesta lived Common descriptions of Native Americans in Florida by 1820 used only the term "Seminoles", 1910 11,933 140.8% An American alligator and an invasive Burmese python in Everglades National Park. ! All streets and avenues in Miami-Dade County follow the Miami grid with a few exceptions most notably in Coral Gables Hialeah Coconut Grove and Miami Beach One neighborhood the Roads is named as such because its streets run off the Miami grid at a 45-degree angle and therefore are all named roads, Royal Air Maroc Casablanca Miami is the home to the National Hurricane Center and the headquarters of the United States Southern Command responsible for military operations in Central and South America Miami is also an industrial center especially for stone quarrying and warehousing These industries are centered largely on the western fringes of the city near Doral and Hialeah. Everglades Agricultural Area 8 Economy In 2010 Cubans made up the largest population of immigrants (with more than half of the population) with Colombians coming in second Haitians in third followed by Nicaraguans in fourth place then Dominicans Venezuelans Peruvians Jamaicans Mexicans and Argentinians among the highest group of immigrants; . . White (Includes White Hispanics) 72.6% 66.6% 65.6% 66.6% 76.6% 77.4% 83.7% 78.5% 77.3% 68.5% 58.7% In addition to annual festivals like the Calle Ocho Festival Miami is home to many entertainment venues theaters museums parks and performing arts centers the newest addition to the Miami arts scene is the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts home of the Florida Grand Opera and the second-largest performing arts center in the United States after Lincoln Center in New York City the center attracts many large-scale operas ballets concerts and musicals from around the world Other performing arts venues in Miami include the Olympia Theater Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Fair Expo Center the Tower Theater and the Bayfront Park Amphitheater. Including its marginal seas the Atlantic covers an area of 106,460,000 km2 (41,100,000 sq mi) or 23.5% of the global ocean and has a volume of 310,410,900 km3 (74,471,500 cu mi) or 23.3% of the total volume of the earth's oceans Excluding its marginal seas the Atlantic covers 81,760,000 km2 (31,570,000 sq mi) and has a volume of 305,811,900 km3 (73,368,200 cu mi) the North Atlantic covers 41,490,000 km2 (16,020,000 sq mi) (11.5%) and the South Atlantic 40,270,000 km2 (15,550,000 sq mi) (11.1%) the average depth is 3,646 m (11,962 ft) and the maximum depth the Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench is 8,486 m (27,841 ft), Metrorail: Bayside Marketplace Downtown Miami, Royal Palm Estates Cutler Bay All of the 67 counties in Florida.