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White or Caucasian (including White Hispanic) 72.6% 73.8% 75.0%, In 1960 non-Hispanic whites represented 80% of Miami-Dade county's population in 1970 the Census Bureau reported Miami's population as 45.3% Hispanic 32.9% non-Hispanic White and 22.7% Black Miami's explosive population growth has been driven by internal migration from other parts of the country primarily up until the 1980s as well as by immigration primarily from the 1960s to the 1990s Today immigration to Miami has continued and Miami's growth today is attributed greatly to its fast urbanization and high-rise construction which has increased its inner city neighborhood population densities such as in Downtown Brickell and Edgewater where one area in Downtown alone saw a 2,069% increase in population in the 2010 Census Miami is regarded as more of a multicultural mosaic than it is a melting pot with residents still maintaining much of or some of their cultural traits the overall culture of Miami is heavily influenced by its large population of Hispanics from the Caribbean and South America and blacks mainly from the Caribbean islands, North Miami 58,786 59,880 Miami-Dade National protected areas The military penetration of southern Florida offered the opportunity to map a poorly understood and largely unknown part of the country an 1840 expedition into the Everglades offered the first printed account for the general public to read about the Everglades the anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing:. (26.1) 81.1 U.S National Register of Historic Places. 16 Further reading Buena Vista Design District Liberty City Little Haiti Little River Lummus Park Overtown Spring Garden and Wynwood The Everglades Forever Act introduced by Governor Lawton Chiles in 1994 was an attempt to legislate the lowering of phosphorus in Everglades waterways the act put the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in charge of testing and enforcing low phosphorus levels: 10 parts per billion (ppb) (down from 500 ppb in the 1980s) the SFWMD built Stormwater Treatment Areas (STAs) near sugarcane fields where water leaving the EAA flows into ponds lined with lime rock and layers of peat and calcareous periphyton Testing has shown this method to be more effective than previously anticipated bringing levels from 80 ppb to 10 ppb.
. Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau Toll Florida 924.svg State Road 924 (Gratigny Parkway) Model United Nations Program Japan Japan. 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, Miami Florida Business directory, 1 Music history Jetport proposition. The Mayaimis built ceremonial and village earthwork mounds around Lake Okeechobee similar to those of the Mississippian culture and earlier mound builders Fort Center is in the area occupied by the Mayaimis in historic times They dug many canals as other earthworks to use as pathways for their canoes the dugout canoes were a platform type with shovel-shaped ends resembling those used in Central America and the West Indies rather than the pointed-end canoes used by other peoples in the southeastern United States, The Student Government Association presides over and funds the over 300 student clubs and organizations and honor societies at the university and has an operating budget of over $14 million the Student Government Association is split into three branches with the Executive a Legislative Student Senate and Judicial Supreme Court Due to the unique nature of a multi-campus university the president of Modesto Maidique Campus (University Park) serves as the student representative on the university's board of trustees while the president for the Biscayne Bay Campus serves as a member of the Foundation Board. Delray Beach Silver Service Tri-Rail, 9 Pompano Beach Broward 78,191 99,845 111,954 +12.13% Fire is an important element in the natural maintenance of the Everglades the majority of fires are caused by lightning strikes from thunderstorms during the wet season Their effects are largely superficial and serve to foster specific plant growth: sawgrass will burn above water but the roots are preserved underneath Fire in the sawgrass marshes serves to keep out larger bushes and trees and releases nutrients from decaying plant matter more efficiently than decomposition Whereas in the wet season dead plant matter and the tips of grasses and trees are burned in the dry season the fire may be fed by organic peat and burn deeply destroying root systems Fires are confined by existing water and rainfall it takes approximately 225 years for one foot (.30 m) of peat to develop but in some locations the peat is less dense than it should be for the 5,000 years of the Everglades' existence Scientists indicate fire as the cause; it is also cited as the reason for the black color of Everglades muck Layers of charcoal have been detected in the peat in portions of the Everglades that indicate the region endured severe fires for years at a time although this trend seems to have abated since the last occurrence in 940 BCE, Athletics Areas with between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants In 1993 the first dredge of PortMiami occurred deepening it to 42 feet in 2006 a $40 million project to expand the South Harbor finished in 2011 a project to reconnect PortMiami to the mainland via railroad began in 2013 a dredging project began to deepen the harbors around PortMiami from 44 to 52 feet in April 2019 the Miami-Dade Tourism and Ports Committee approved a deal for Royal Caribbean Cruises to build a new office and parking garage on Dodge Island.
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