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. . Miami is also the home of many college sports teams the two largest are the University of Miami Hurricanes whose football team plays at Hard Rock Stadium and Florida International University Panthers whose football team plays at Ricardo Silva Stadium. Opa-locka Brazilian pepper or Florida holly (Schinus terebinthifolius) has also wreaked havoc on the Everglades exhibiting a tendency to spread rapidly and to crowd out native species of plants as well as to create inhospitable environments for native animals It is especially difficult to eradicate and is readily propagated by birds which eat its small red berries the Brazilian pepper problem is not exclusive to the Everglades; neither is the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) which is a widespread problem in Florida's waterways a major threat to endemic species and is difficult and costly to eradicate the Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) may be causing the most harm to restoration as it blankets areas thickly making it impossible for animals to pass through it also climbs up trees and creates "fire ladders" allowing parts of the trees to burn that would otherwise remain unharmed, Banks of the North-West Atlantic Canal Point Haverhill. Graduate Contents In addition to annual festivals like the Calle Ocho Festival Miami is home to many entertainment venues theaters museums parks and performing arts centers the newest addition to the Miami arts scene is the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts home of the Florida Grand Opera and the second-largest performing arts center in the United States after Lincoln Center in New York City the center attracts many large-scale operas ballets concerts and musicals from around the world Other performing arts venues in Miami include the Olympia Theater Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Fair Expo Center the Tower Theater and the Bayfront Park Amphitheater, Average relative humidity (%) 74.6 73.0 70.7 68.3 70.7 75.3 74.7 76.2 77.6 76.6 75.6 75.4 74.1 Contents. Robert F Clark Plaza CBD Main article: Geology of Florida A satellite image of Miami International Airport superimposed over the noted locations of old Miami City Airport / Pan American Field / 36th Street Airport of the 1920s to 1950s era in the upper right corner facing 36th Street. The same year the park was dedicated two hurricanes and the wet season caused 100 inches (250 cm) to fall on South Florida Although there were no human casualties agricultural interests lost approximately $59 million in 1948 Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes (C&SF) which divided the Everglades into basins in the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) and the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee in the southern Everglades was Everglades National Park Levees and pumping stations bordered each WCA and released water in dryer times or removed it and pumped it to the ocean in times of flood the WCAs took up approximately 37 percent of the original Everglades the C&SF constructed over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of canals and hundreds of pumping stations and levees within three decades During the 1950s and 1960s the Miami metropolitan area grew four times as fast as the rest of the nation Between 1940 and 1965 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1,000 people moved to Miami every week Developed areas between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s quadrupled Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. The Stephen P Clark Government Center in Downtown Miami is the headquarters of the Miami-Dade County government, Gainesville metropolitan area, Miami is home to one of the largest ports in the United States the PortMiami It is the largest cruise ship port in the world and is often called the "Cruise Capital of the World" and the "Cargo Gateway of the Americas" it has retained its status as the number one cruise/passenger port in the world for well over a decade accommodating the largest cruise ships and the major cruise lines in 2017 the port served 5,340,559 cruise passengers Additionally the port is one of the nation's busiest cargo ports importing 9,162,340 tons of cargo in 2017 Among North American ports it ranks second to New Orleans' Port of South Louisiana in terms of cargo tonnage imported from Latin America the port sits on 518 acres (2 km2) and has seven passenger terminals China is the port's number one import country and number one export country Miami has the world's largest amount of cruise line headquarters home to Carnival Cruise Line Celebrity Cruises Norwegian Cruise Line Oceania Cruises and Royal Caribbean International in 2014 the Port of Miami Tunnel was opened connecting the MacArthur Causeway to PortMiami.

Main article: Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Miami Seaplane Base 7.4 Atlantic World Other settlements within Miami's city limits were Lemon City (now Little Haiti) and Coconut Grove Settlements outside the city limits were Biscayne in present-day Miami Shores and Cutler in present-day Palmetto Bay Many of the settlers were homesteaders attracted to the area by offers of 160 acres (0.6 km2) of free land by the United States federal government. Economic prosperity in the 1920s stimulated tourism to Florida and related development of hotels and resort communities Combined with its sudden elevation in profile was the Florida land boom of the 1920s which brought a brief period of intense land development Devastating hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 followed by the Great Depression brought that period to a halt Florida's economy did not fully recover until the military buildup for World War II. . FIU Panthers Football NCAA D-I (Conference USA) FIU Stadium (23,500) 15,453 None. . Florida contains the highest percentage of people over 65 (17%) There were 186,102 military retirees living in the state in 2008 About two-thirds of the population was born in another state the second highest in the U.S. !