In 2014 the City of South Miami passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half with a northern boundary drawn to include the counties of Brevard Orange Polk Hillsborough and Pinellas (roughly the Tampa Bay and Orlando areas) in total the proposed State of South Florida would have included 24 counties, The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform the largest deposits of potash in the United States are found in Florida the largest deposits of rock phosphate in the country are found in Florida Most of this is in Bone Valley. 3 Twenty-first century 9 Education 1992 39.0% 2,072,698 40.9% 2,173,310 The city's name is derived from the Miami River which is ultimately derived from the Mayaimi people who lived in the area at the time of European colonization. Margate 53,284 53,909 Broward Active students: 345,545, Biscayne Boulevard Downtown's main north-south thoroughfare, A local producer and noise-artist from the Miami Rock Scene Rat Bastard has recently been celebrated in a rock opera entitled "Hearing Damage (aka the Rat Opera)" the Rat Opera written by local performers Brian Franklin and Rob Elba features Rene Alvarez playing the part of Rat Rat co-founded the group to Live and Shave in L.A in 1993. In 1891 a Cleveland woman named Julia Tuttle decided to move to South Florida to make a new start in her life after the death of her husband Frederick Tuttle She purchased 640 acres on the north bank of the Miami River in present-day downtown Miami! After Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba following the Revolution in 1959 many wealthy Cubans sought refuge in Miami further increasing the city's population Miami developed new businesses and cultural amenities as part of the New South in the 1980s and 1990s At the same time South Florida weathered social problems related to drug wars immigration from Haiti and Latin America and the widespread destruction of Hurricane Andrew Racial and cultural tensions sometimes sparked but the city developed in the latter half of the 20th century as a major international financial and cultural center It is the second-largest U.S city with a Spanish-speaking majority (after El Paso Texas) and the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality, (23.9) 75.8 The urban neighborhood of Brickell in Downtown Miami contains the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S. Importance of international business education, Main article: Climate of Miami, Spain regained both East and West Florida after Britain's defeat in the American Revolution and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles in 1783 and continued the provincial divisions until 1821. In 1999 the Barry University School of Law was established in Orlando Florida Barry University's law school is named the Dwayne O Andreas School of Law. .
Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821): Florida's Turnpike mainline (SR 91)/Miami Gardens to U.S Route 1/Florida City, 2.1 Geology Scenes from the 1994 comedy film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective were shot here, Predevelopment flow direction of water from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay Source: U.S Geological Survey. FIU MUN also hosts an annual high school conference: Florida International Model United Nations (FIMUN) the conference traditionally hosts over 400 high school students from 20 or more high schools from Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach Counties; Class of 2004 6.4 Growth of urban areas, Collins Bridge the first bridge to connect Miami to Miami Beach. Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, Earth Sciences 118 See also: List of companies based in Miami, 2.1 Climate Another major Cuban exodus occurred in 1994 to prevent it from becoming another Mariel Boatlift the Clinton Administration announced a significant change in U.S policy In a controversial action the administration announced that Cubans interdicted at sea would not be brought to the United States but instead would be taken by the Coast Guard to U.S military installations at Guantanamo Bay or to Panama During an eight-month period beginning in the summer of 1994 over 30,000 Cubans and more than 20,000 Haitians were interdicted and sent to live in camps outside the United States! .
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