(15.3) 66.9 7 Legacy 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. 12.2 Theatres and performance arts Common graduation requirements - Roughly 15-20 graduate level courses 3 Fort Lauderdale Broward 152,397 165,521 182,595 +10.32% City served Code Airport name FAA 2.1 1900s to 1930s: the Magic City. . The Aethiopian Ocean in a 1710 French map of Africa Downtown Miami is centered on the Central business district (CBD) best known by local Miamians as simply "Downtown" Although distinct neighborhoods with different characters the following neighborhoods are often labeled under the umbrella term of "Downtown Miami":. Florida's Turnpike shield.svg Florida's Turnpike including Homestead Extension, Also in 1933 the Miami City Commission asked the Miami Women's Club to create a city flag design the flag was designed by Charles L Gmeinder on their behalf and adopted by City Commission in November 1933 It is unknown why the orange and green colors were selected for the flag One theory is that the colors were inspired by the orange tree although the University of Miami was already using the colors of orange and green for their sports teams since 1926.
. The Wertheim Conservatory houses many rare species of plants and foliage (25.8) 85.3 7 In television and entertainment. . 6 9174 4.4 Urban planning, Legend In 2010 1.9% of the population considered themselves to be of only American ancestry (regardless of race or ethnicity.) while 0.5% were of Arab ancestry as of 2010. . According to Hymer there are two main determinants of FDI; where an imperfect market structure is the key element the first is the firm-specific advantages which are developed at the specific companies home country and profitably used in the foreign country the second determinant is the removal of control where Hymer wrote: "When firms are interconnected they compete in selling in the same market or one of the firms may sell to the other," and because of this "it may be profitable to substitute centralized decision-making for decentralized decision-making". 5 Headquarters Miami Florida Business directory, (22.1) 65.4 (28.2) 79.5 After the 2010 Haiti earthquake the district leadership anticipated that there would be thousands of survivors arriving that most students arriving would be poor and that most high school-aged students would be going to Miami Edison High School the district planned to establish housing for refugees at a Baptist hospital in Homestead by January 2011 there were 1,403 survivors from that earthquake enrolled at MCDPS which was below the predicted number and most of them were in the middle and upper classes the hospital was never needed the largest number of high school-aged students 88 enrolled at North Miami High School 51 enrolled at Felix Varela High School and only six enrolled at Miami Edison MDCPS had the highest number of 2010 Haiti earthquake survivors of any U.S school district, ? The following table shows the major professional and Division I college teams in the Miami area with an average attendance of more than 10,000:. FIU has many traditions from student spirit groups alumni association events and student spirit events Panther Rage one of FIU's largest student spirit groups are seen at all the athletics events, Miami was host to many dignitaries and notable people throughout the 1980s and '90s Pope John Paul II visited in November 1987 and held an open-air mass for 150,000 people in Tamiami Park Queen Elizabeth II and three United States presidents also visited Miami Among them is Ronald Reagan who has a street named after him in Little Havana Nelson Mandela's 1989 visit to the city was marked by ethnic tensions Mandela had praised Cuban leader Fidel Castro for his anti-apartheid support on ABC News' Nightline Because of this the city withdrew its official greeting and no high-ranking official welcomed him This led to a boycott by the local African American community of all Miami tourist and convention facilities until Mandela received an official greeting However all efforts to resolve it failed for months resulting in an estimated loss of over US$10 million, A street grid stretches from downtown Miami throughout the county This grid was adopted by the City of Miami following World War I after the United States Post Office threatened to cease mail deliveries in the city because the original system of named streets with names often changing every few blocks and multiple streets in the city sharing the same name was too confusing for the mail carriers the new grid was later extended throughout the county as the population grew west south and north of city limits.
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