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In the 1980s Miami started to see an increase in immigrants from other nations such as Haiti As the Haitian population grew in Miami the area known today as "Little Haiti" emerged centered on Northeast Second Avenue and 54th Street in 1985 Xavier Suarez was elected as Mayor of Miami becoming the first Cuban mayor of a major city in the 1990s the presence of Haitians was acknowledged with Haitian Creole language signs in public places and ballots during voting, Following the demise of the Calusa and Tequesta Native Americans in southern Florida were referred to as "Spanish Indians" in the 1740s probably due to their friendlier relations with Spain the Creek invaded the Florida peninsula; they conquered and assimilated what was left of pre-Columbian societies into the Creek Confederacy They were joined by remnant Indian groups and formed the Seminole a new tribe by ethnogenesis the Seminole originally settled in the northern portion of the territory in addition free blacks and fugitive slaves made their way to Florida where Spain had promised slaves freedom and arms if they converted to Catholicism and pledged loyalty to Spain These African Americans gradually created communities near those of the Seminole and became known as the Black Seminoles the groups acted as allies, Environmental issues 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. . 6.2.1 U.S News and World Report Bal Harbour, Population Miami-Dade Pacific Islander: 0.1% [3,527]. South Florida Punk and Hardcore Star Island Water masses 1.2 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement Top private employers.

The cost of restoring the rail link between the port and the Hialeah Railyard was estimated at $46.9 million $28 million of which was applied for through a federal grant in 2010 Later that year a grant of $22 million was awarded for this project as well as to build an on site intermodal rail yard at the port During the 2000s the percent of Florida East Coast Railway's business has increased from around 60% to around 80% intermodal freight However this was partially due to a decrease in other freight traffic caused by the 2008 recession which reduced the number of trains many carrying rock aggregate used in construction from about 20 to 14 per day, There are five intermediate waters: four low-salinity waters formed at subpolar latitudes and one high-salinity formed through evaporation Arctic Intermediate Water flows from north to become the source for North Atlantic Deep Water south of the Greenland-Scotland sill These two intermediate waters have different salinity in the western and eastern basins the wide range of salinities in the North Atlantic is caused by the asymmetry of the northern subtropical gyre and the large number of contributions from a wide range of sources: Labrador Sea Norwegian-Greenland Sea Mediterranean and South Atlantic Intermediate Water, Miami Springs Other companies with offices in an unincorporated area not in any CDP:. . 6.2 Police Department The break-up of Pangaea resulted in the opening of the Atlantic Ocean in three stages. . .