. The land seemed to inspire extreme reactions of both wonder or hatred During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote "It is in fact a most hideous region to live in a perfect paradise for Indians alligators serpents frogs and every other kind of loathsome reptile." in 1897 explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River He sent his observations to the New Orleans Times-Democrat Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome with numerous springs and 10,000 alligators "more or less" in Lake Okeechobee the party encountered thousands of birds near the Shark River "killing hundreds but they continued to return" Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida writing "(w)e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.". .
Miami-Dade County holds the majority of sports arenas stadiums and complexes in South Florida Some of these sports facilities are:, $205.57 per credit hour for in-state students and $618.87 per credit hour for out-of-state students Total tuition/fees :$6,771.45 for in-state and $19,583.74 for out of state. Native American[note 1] <1% 0.6% 1.4% University of Florida The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth the few published accounts from that period describe the area as a wilderness that held much promise the area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida" After the Great Freeze of 1894 the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived Julia Tuttle a local landowner convinced Henry Flagler a railroad tycoon to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami on July 28 1896 Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300. Occupation Income and Industries Gallery After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017 a large population of Puerto Ricans began moving to Florida to escape the widespread destruction Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans arrived in Florida after Maria dissipated with nearly half of them arriving in Orlando and large populations also moving to Tampa Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Jacksonville: Jacksonville is served by the Jacksonville Skyway an automated people mover monorail connecting the Florida State College downtown campus the Northbank central business district Convention Center and Southbank locations the system includes 8 stops connected by two lines JTA bus has 180 vehicles with 56 lines, Broward College (public) American Airlines Arena home of the Miami Heat of the NBA See also: List of colleges and universities in Florida List of high schools in Florida and List of school districts in Florida! Class of 2000, The metropolitan areas of Miami Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are located on a rise in elevation along the eastern coast of Florida called the Eastern Coastal Ridge that was formed as waves compressed ooids into a single formation Along the western border of the Big Cypress Swamp is the Immokolee Ridge (or Immokolee Rise) a slight rise of compressed sand that divides the runoff between the Caloosahatchee River and the Big Cypress This slight rise in elevation on both sides of the Everglades creates a basin and forces water that overflows Lake Okeechobee to creep toward the southwest Under both the Miami Limestone formation and the Fort Thompson limestone lies the Biscayne Aquifer a surface aquifer that serves as the Miami metropolitan area's fresh water source Rainfall and stored water in the Everglades replenish the Biscayne Aquifer directly, South Miami American Airlines Arena home of the Miami Heat of the NBA. Public transit in Miami-Dade County is operated by Miami-Dade Transportation and Public Works and is the largest public transit in Florida Miami-Dade Transportation and Public Works operates a heavy rail metro system Metrorail an elevated people mover in Downtown Miami Metromover and the bus system Metrobus. (33.3) 92.0 Class of 2001 State Road 886 (Port Boulevard) connects downtown and PortMiami by bridge over Biscayne Bay, 1940 387,522 80.4% (181) 7.42 As of 2010 those of Asian ancestry accounted for 1.0% of Miami's population Of the city's total population 0.3% were Indian people/Indo-Caribbean American (1,206 people) 0.3% Chinese (1,804 people) 0.2% Filipino (647 people) 0.1% were other Asian (433 people) 0.1% Japanese (245 people) 0.1% Korean (213 people) and 0.0% were Vietnamese (125 people).
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