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5.3 Pineland Main article: Sargasso Sea, Water Demographics of student body, 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. Atlas Air See also: List of tallest buildings in Miami, Locally known as Downtown the area is a cultural financial and commercial center of South Florida tracing its present-day history back to the 19th century in recent years Downtown Miami has grown and physically expanded to become the fastest-growing area in Miami with rapid increase in population and the greatest concentration of high-rises in the region Greater Downtown is home to many major museums parks education centers banks company headquarters courthouses government offices theaters shops and many of the oldest buildings in the city. 1870 187,748 33.7% In 1975 the bay was designated as a state aquatic preserve the aquatic preserve spans the entirety of Biscayne Bay from Oleta River in the north to Card Sound in the south with the exception of the central part of the bay which is Biscayne National Park a second preserve was soon added off of Cape Florida on Key Biscayne which became known as the Cape Florida to Monroe County Line Preserve These two preserves are now managed by the state of Florida under the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserves Seven remaining houses of Biscayne Bay's Stiltsville settlement are now within the boundaries of this National Park which was established in 1980 Much of Biscayne National Park was designated as a National Monument in 1967 Barnes Sound lies within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in regards to wildlife bottlenose dolphins and Florida manatees can be observed in the bay; As of 2010 70.2% of Miami's population age five and over spoke only Spanish at home while 22.7% of the population spoke English at home About 6.3% spoke other Indo-European languages at home About 0.4% spoke Asian languages or Pacific Islander languages/Oceanic languages at home the remaining 0.3% of the population spoke other languages at home in total 77.3% spoke another language other than English.

. . - University business professors ($75,000)*, 3 See also From 2007 to 2016 FIU ranked 1st in the State University System of Florida in energy conservation and sustainability, Engineering and Computer Sciences Building 1990 Main article: FIU Panthers; . Central Florida, As seen in 2006 the high-rise construction in Miami has inspired popular opinion of "Miami manhattanization", 1976 51.9% 1,636,000 46.6% 1,469,531; San Juan Campus The Metromover is free and has three loops throughout Downtown Brickell and the Arts & Entertainment District There are Metromover stations at roughly every two blocks in the area.