7 Restoration Hispanic and Latinos of any race made up 22.5% of the population in 2010 as of 2011 57% of Florida's population younger than age 1 were minorities (meaning that they had at least one parent who was not non-Hispanic white). # Employer # of employees 10 Media Five geologic formations form the surface of the southern portion of Florida: the Tamiami Formation Caloosahatchee Formation Anastasia Formation Miami Limestone and the Fort Thompson Formation the Tamiami Formation is a compression of highly permeable light colored fossiliferous sands and pockets of quartz 150 feet (46 m) thick It is named for the Tamiami Trail that follows the upper bedrock of the Big Cypress Swamp and underlies the southern portion of the Everglades Between the Tamiami Formation and Lake Okeechobee is the Caloosahatchee Formation named for the river over it Much less permeable this formation is highly calcitic and is composed of sandy shell marl clay and sand Water underneath the Caloosahatchee Formation is typically very mineralized Both the Tamiami and Caloosahatchee Formations developed during the Pliocene Epoch. . In October 2001 Deputy Superintendent Henry Fraind retired under pressure after it was discovered that a clique of longtime administrators and powerful outsiders had exploited the district's vast resources Fraind had received his Ph.D from Pacific Western University (Hawaii) in 1982 a noted diploma mill, In greater Miami the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority and Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) maintain eight state expressways in conjunction with FDOT the Airport Expressway (SR 112) and the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) relay western Miami-Dade suburbs to the eastern urban coast at I-95 and to Miami Beach via I-195 and I-395 at the Airport and Midtown interchanges the Gratigny Parkway (SR 924) connects northern Miami suburbs to the southern end of I-75 the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) is the primary beltway road of urban Miami relaying I-95 and Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) at the Golden Glades Interchange near northeastern North Miami Beach to the southern inland suburbs of Kendall and Pinecrest the Don Shula Expressway (SR 874) and the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821) form the southernmost end of the beltway connecting the Palmetto Expressway to the bedroom communities of Homestead and Florida City the Snapper Creek Expressway (SR 878) relays the Don Shula Expressway to South Dixie Highway (US 1). Humans arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago Paleo-Indians came to Florida probably following large game that included giant sloths saber-toothed cats and spectacled bears They found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted for desert conditions However 6,500 years ago climate changes brought a wetter landscape; large animals became extinct in Florida and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted and became the Archaic peoples They conformed to the environmental changes and created many tools with the various resources available During the Late Archaic period the climate became wetter again and approximately 3000 BCE the rise of water tables allowed an increase in population and cultural activity Florida Indians developed into three distinct but similar cultures that were named for the bodies of water near where they were located: Okeechobee Caloosahatchee and Glades, Miami Florida Business directory, Iberia Madrid The City of Miami has various lands operated by the National Park Service the Florida Division of Recreation and Parks and the City of Miami Department of Parks and Recreation. Tallahassee, 1.9% Venezuelan Main article: Draining and development of the Everglades, Miami Florida Business directory Seminoles made their home in the Everglades; Simpson Park Brickell Water quality, Of the county's 2.6 million total residents (as of 2013) approximately 52% live in unincorporated areas the majority of which are heavily suburbanized These residents are part of the Unincorporated Municipal Services Area (UMSA) for these residents the County fills the role of both lower- and upper-tier government the County Commission acting as their lower-tier municipal representative body Residents within UMSA pay a UMSA tax equivalent to a city tax which is used to provide County residents with equivalent city services (police fire zoning water and sewer etc.) Residents of incorporated areas do not pay UMSA tax, Main article: Government of the City of Miami.
5.2 Top government employers In 2005 82% of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 28% had a bachelor's degree or higher Among people 16 to 19 years old 7% were dropouts; they were not enrolled in school and had not graduated from high school the total school enrollment in the Miami metro area was 1.4 million in 2005 Nursery school and kindergarten enrollment was 170,000 and elementary or high school enrollment was 879,000 College or graduate school enrollment was 354,000, A number of magazines circulate throughout the greater Miami area including Miami Monthly Southeast Florida's only city/regional; Ocean Drive a hot-spot social scene glossy; and South Florida Business Leader. Law government and politics Geography 2.1 Central business district ("downtown") 10 Bank of America 2,000. . ! .
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