Downtown is South Florida's main hub for finance commerce and international business Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S. 2 Twentieth century Biscayne National Park The Everglades are a complex system of interdependent ecosystems Marjory Stoneman Douglas described the area as a "River of Grass" in 1947 though that metaphor represents only a portion of the system the area recognized as the Everglades prior to drainage was a web of marshes and prairies 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2) in size Borders between ecosystems are subtle or imperceptible These systems shift grow and shrink die or reappear within years or decades Geologic factors climate and the frequency of fire help to create maintain or replace the ecosystems in the Everglades. . ! ; . Glenn Hubert Library In 1996 Miami acquired the AFL team the Sacramento Attack which was renamed as the Miami Hooters (due to its association with the Florida-based Hooters restaurant chain) and it played from 1993 to 1995 in 1996 the association with the chain was completed and the team moved to West Palm Beach and renamed as the Florida Bobcats.

Another factor is residents who were formerly snowbirds from the Northeast and to a lesser extent countries such as Canada, Contents 8.2 Culture and wildlife, 3 American Airlines 11,031 10 References Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001. . ! Miami Florida Business directory Cypress swamps can be found throughout the Everglades but the largest covers most of Collier County the Big Cypress Swamp is located to the west of the sawgrass prairies and sloughs and it is commonly called "The Big Cypress." the name refers to its area rather than the height or diameter of the trees; at its most conservative estimate the swamp measures 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) but the hydrologic boundary of the Big Cypress can be calculated at over 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2) Most of the Big Cypress sits atop a bedrock covered by a thinner layer of limestone the limestone underneath the Big Cypress contains quartz which creates sandy soil that hosts a variety of vegetation different from what is found in other areas of the Everglades the basin for the Big Cypress receives on average 55 inches (140 cm) of water in the wet season. Hydrology Hamilton Disston's land sale notice Governance Parks 12 International relations Several defunct airlines including Airlift International Arrow Air National Airlines and Rich International Airways were headquartered on or near the airport property.