See also: List of Governors of Florida United States congressional delegations from Florida List of United States Senators from Florida and Florida Cabinet. Facilities Treasure hunters from the Bahamas and the Keys came to South Florida to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Great Florida reef some of whom accepted Spanish land offers along the Miami River at about the same time the Seminole Indians arrived along with a group of runaway slaves in 1825 the Cape Florida Lighthouse was built on nearby Key Biscayne to warn passing ships of the dangerous reefs; . The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 10,000 years ago the region was filled with pine hardwood forests and was home to plenty of deer bear and wild fowl These first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River with their main villages on the northern banks These early Native Americans created a variety of weapons and tools from shells!
Ecosystems SR A1A Hialeah Market Tri-Rail Treasure Coast, 7.5 Air crashes The Miami metropolitan area also includes several urban clusters (UCs) as of the 2000 Census which are not part of the Miami Urbanized Area These are the Belle Glade UC population 24,218 area 20,717,433 square meters and population density of 3027.6 per square mile; Key Biscayne UC population 10,513 area 4,924,214 square meters and population density of 5529.5 per square mile; Redland UC population 3,936 area 10,586,212 square meters and population density of 963.0 per square mile; and West Jupiter UC population 8,998 area 24,737,176 square meters and population density of 942.1 per square mile. Main category: History of the Atlantic Ocean The inhabitants at the time of first European contact were the Tequesta people who controlled much of southeastern Florida including what is now Miami-Dade County Broward County and the southern part of Palm Beach County the Tequesta Indians fished hunted and gathered the fruit and roots of plants for food but did not practice agriculture They buried the small bones of the deceased with the rest of the body and put the larger bones in a box for the village people to see the Tequesta are credited with making the Miami Circle, The Miami-Dade Police Department is a full-service metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas although it has lenient mutual aid agreements with other municipalities most often the City of Miami Police Department With 4,700 employees it is Florida's largest police department the Department is often referred to by its former name the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro. .
Daily Billboard