Allan C. Draves

Contents The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice operates the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center in an unincorporated area in the county. Hialeah 224,669 226,419 Miami-Dade Miami Florida Business directory Predevelopment flow direction of water from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay Source: U.S Geological Survey, This map made by the U.S military shows the term "Everglades" was in use by 1857. Model United Nations Program On November 13 1997 voters changed the name of the county from Dade to Miami-Dade to acknowledge the international name recognition of Miami Voters were acting pursuant to home rule powers granted to Dade County including the ability to change the name of the county without the consent of the Florida Legislature the change in name also addressed a source of public dissatisfaction with the name "Dade" which was chosen to honor Francis L Dade who had been killed in the Dade Massacre in the 1830s the massacre did not occur in South Florida but in the west central part of the state in present-day Sumter County near Bushnell There is also a Dade City which is closer to the site of the massacre. . On September 9 1994 the United States and Cuba agreed to normalize migration between the two countries the agreement codified the new U.S policy of placing Cuban refugees in safe havens outside the United States while obtaining a commitment from Cuba to discourage Cubans from sailing to America in addition the United States committed to admitting a minimum of 20,000 Cuban immigrants per year That number is in addition to the admission of immediate relatives of U.S citizens. In the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic warm subtropical waters are transformed into colder subpolar and polar waters in the Labrador Sea this water flows back to the subtropical gyre!

14 Sister states, Presidents Until the early 1990s the runways parking ramp and other features of Tamiami Airport were still visible on campus and clearly discernible in aerial photos Construction has removed all of these features and only the University Tower remains as a memory of the university's past University Park is a lush heavily vegetated campus with many lakes and a 15-acre nature preserve as well as a palm arboretum and has over 90 buildings as of late 2009 current construction at University Park includes the Nursing and Health Sciences Building the School of International and Public Affairs Building and a fifth parking garage, As of 2010 those of Hispanic or Latino ancestry accounted for 22.5% (4,223,806) of Florida's population Out of the 22.5% the largest groups were 6.5% (1,213,438) Cuban 4.5% (847,550) Puerto Rican 3.3% (629,718) Mexican and 1.6% (300,414) Colombian Florida's Hispanic population includes large communities of Cuban Americans in Miami and Tampa Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Tampa and Mexican/Central American migrant workers the Hispanic community continues to grow more affluent and mobile as of 2011 57.0% of Florida's children under the age of 1 belonged to minority groups Florida has a large and diverse Hispanic population with Cubans and Puerto Ricans being the largest groups in the state Nearly 80% of Cuban Americans live in Florida especially South Florida where there is a long-standing and affluent Cuban community Florida has the second largest Puerto Rican population after New York as well as the fastest-growing in the nation Puerto Ricans are more widespread throughout the state though the heaviest concentrations are in the Orlando area of Central Florida; Miami and its suburbs are located on a broad plain between the Everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east which extends from Lake Okeechobee southward to Florida Bay the elevation of the area never rises above 40 ft (12 m) and averages at around 6 ft (1.8 m) above sea level in most neighborhoods especially near the coast the highest points are found along the Miami Rock Ridge which lies under most of the eastern Miami metro the main portion of the city is on the shores of Biscayne Bay which contains several hundred natural and artificial barrier islands the largest of which contains Miami Beach and South Beach the Gulf Stream a warm ocean current runs northward just 15 miles (24 km) off the coast allowing the city's climate to stay warm and mild all year; .