2.4.2 Growth as a global city Tallahassee 18/4 20/6 23/8 27/11 31/17 33/21 33/22 33/22 32/20 28/14 23/9 19/5 The formation of the Central American Isthmus closed the Central American Seaway at the end of the Pliocene 2.8 Ma ago the formation of the isthmus resulted in the migration and extinction of many land-living animals known as the Great American Interchange but the closure of the seaway resulted in a "Great American Schism" as it affected ocean currents salinity and temperatures in both the Atlantic and Pacific Marine organisms on both sides of the isthmus became isolated and either diverged or went extinct, Non-Hispanic White 11% 57% 63% 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! 2 Special features In 2016 Florida charged the second lowest tuition in the nation for four years $26,000 for in-state students to $86,000 for out-of-state students This compares with an average of $34,800 nationally for in-state students, The Miami metropolitan area contains all or part of nine Congressional districts: the 18th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th and 27th districts as of 2017 (the 113th Congress) the Cook Partisan Voting Index listed four as being Republican-leaning: the 18th 25th 26th and 27th with the 25th being the most Republican-leaning at R+5 and five as being Democratic-leaning: the 20th 21st 22nd 23rd and 24th with the 24th being the most Democratic-leaning at D+34 making it the ninth-most Democratic-leaning district in the nation, Denzel Curry performing in 2016. Pre-K: 1,533 6.6 County representation Constitution 90 0.00% Sunrise S Interfraternity Council Panhellenic Council National Pan-Hellenic Council Multicultural Greek Council. Two or more races (Multiracial) 2.7% 2.4% 2.5%, Exploration, Icebergs are common from early February to the end of July across the shipping lanes near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland the ice season is longer in the polar regions but there is little shipping in those areas. In 2009 fishing was a $6 billion industry employing 60,000 jobs for sports and commercial purposes Cecilia Altonaga 8 External links M 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. Elementary schools 2000 40,556 12.2% Florida is mostly low-lying and flat as this topographic map shows Initially most residents wanted to name the city "Flagler" However Henry Flagler was adamant that the new city would not be named after him So on July 28 1896 the City of Miami named after the Miami River was incorporated with 502 voters including 100 registered black voters the blacks provided the primary labor force for the building of Miami.[citation needed] Clauses in land deeds confined blacks to the northwest section of Miami which became known as "Colored Town" (today's Overtown).
Leisure City Households and families: There were 2,338,450 households the average household size was 2.6 people Families made up 65% of the households in the Miami area This figure includes both married-couple families (45%) and other families (20%) Nonfamily households made up 35% of all households in Miami Most of the nonfamily households were people living alone but some consisted of people living in households in which no one was related to the householder! FIU is ranked 2nd in the U.S. for granting biology bachelor's degrees and 6th in granting master's degrees to minorities according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Bayfront Park Miami Intermodal Center; The Department Theatre presents a season of four professionally designed produced and directed productions each year that serve as a laboratory for students to put their learning into practice This Main Stage season is presented at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center in addition to Main Stage productions students write direct and perform productions in the Student Theatre Lab Studio the annual New Plays Festival and the summer Alternative Theatre Festival the summer Alternative Theatre Festival includes a development project of a new work by an established playwright a faculty directed piece one student directed piece and may include Alumni showcase and reunion productions, The Miami-Dade County Public School District is currently the 4th-largest public school district in the nation the School District of Palm Beach County is the 4th-largest in Florida and the 11th-largest in the United States Broward County Public School District is the 6th-largest in the United States! Miami has a minority-majority population as non-Hispanic whites comprise less than half of the population 11.9% down from 41.7% in 1970 Hispanic or Latino (of any race) make up 70% of Miami's population as of the 2010 census the racial makeup of the population of Miami was 72.6% White American (including White Hispanic) 19.2% Black or African American 1% Asian American and the remainder belonged to other groups or was of mixed ancestry, TAP Air Portugal Lisbon Elementary schools 2.1 Geology 1990 1,937,094 19.1% Major freeways and tollways. Average maximum and minimum levels of rainfall for the lower east coast of Florida from 1918 to 1985 Miami Canal Unlike a consolidated city-county where the city and county governments merge into a single entity these two entities are separate Instead there are two "tiers" or levels of government: city and county There are 34 municipalities in the county the City of Miami being the largest. Because the population of South Florida is largely confined to a strip of land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Everglades the Miami urbanized area (that is the area of contiguous urban development) is about 100 miles (160 km) long (north to south) but never more than 20 miles (32 km) wide and in some areas only 5 miles (8.0 km) wide (east to west) the Miami metropolitan statistical area is longer than any other urbanized area in the United States except for the New York metropolitan area it was the eighth most densely populated urbanized area in the United States in the 2000 census, The geographical area of Florida diminished with the establishment of English settlements to the north and French claims to the west the English attacked St Augustine burning the city and its cathedral to the ground several times Spain built the Castillo de San Marcos in 1672 and Fort Matanzas in 1742 to defend Florida's capital city from attacks and to maintain its strategic position in the defense of the Captaincy General of Cuba and the Spanish West Indies, 1 History Public transit in Miami-Dade County is operated by Miami-Dade Transportation and Public Works and is the largest public transit in Florida Miami-Dade Transportation and Public Works operates a heavy rail metro system Metrorail an elevated people mover in Downtown Miami Metromover and the bus system Metrobus. . !
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