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Key West Historic District, The western side of Miami includes the neighborhoods of Little Havana West Flagler and Flagami Although at one time a mostly Jewish neighborhood today western Miami is home to immigrants from mostly Central America and Cuba while the west central neighborhood of Allapattah is a multicultural community of many ethnicities, Miami Florida Business directory. 4 Economy Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II, 5.1 Top destinations Miami Florida Business directory 2 Campuses The following smaller general aviation airports are also in the metro area:. Electronic dance music Miami International Airport serves as the primary international airport of the Greater Miami Area One of the busiest international airports in the world Miami International Airport caters to over 35 million passengers a year the airport is a major hub and the largest international gateway for American Airlines Miami International is the busiest airport in Florida the United States' second-largest international port of entry for foreign air passengers behind New York's John F Kennedy International Airport and the seventh-largest such gateway in the world the airport's extensive international route network includes non-stop flights to over seventy international cities in North and South America Europe Asia and the Middle East. 1940 172,172 55.6% First Coast Terrorism Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Zoo Miami Miami Atlantic Subarctic A 2003 U.S Geological Survey photo showing the border between Water Conservation Area 3 (bottom) with water and Everglades National Park dry (top). .
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