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Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA ICAO: KMIA FAA LID: MIA) also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field is the primary airport serving the Miami area with over 1,000 daily flights to 167 domestic and international destinations the airport is in an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Florida 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Downtown Miami in metropolitan Miami adjacent to the cities of Miami and Miami Springs and the village of Virginia Gardens Nearby are the cities of Hialeah and Doral and the Census-designated place of Fontainebleau; History Facilities Port Tampa Bay is the largest port in Florida Miami was host to many dignitaries and notable people throughout the 1980s and '90s Pope John Paul II visited in November 1987 and held an open-air mass for 150,000 people in Tamiami Park Queen Elizabeth II and three United States presidents also visited Miami Among them is Ronald Reagan who has a street named after him in Little Havana Nelson Mandela's 1989 visit to the city was marked by ethnic tensions Mandela had praised Cuban leader Fidel Castro for his anti-apartheid support on ABC News' Nightline Because of this the city withdrew its official greeting and no high-ranking official welcomed him This led to a boycott by the local African American community of all Miami tourist and convention facilities until Mandela received an official greeting However all efforts to resolve it failed for months resulting in an estimated loss of over US$10 million.

Catholic preparatory schools operated by religious orders are Christopher Columbus High School and Belen Jesuit Preparatory School for boys and Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Lourdes Academy for girls; In 1992 Florida was the site of what was then the costliest weather disaster in U.S history Hurricane Andrew which caused more than $25 billion in damages when it struck during August; it held that distinction until 2005 when Hurricane Katrina surpassed it and it has since been surpassed by six other hurricanes Andrew is currently the second costliest hurricane in Florida's history, The northern side of Miami includes Midtown a district with a great mix of diversity ranging from West Indians to Hispanics to European Americans the Edgewater neighborhood of Midtown is mostly composed of high-rise residential towers and is home to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Wynwood is an art district with ten galleries in former warehouses as well as a large outdoor mural project the wealthier residents of Miami usually live in the Design District and the Upper Eastside which has many 1920s homes as well as examples of Miami Modern architecture in the MiMo Historic District the northern side of Miami also has notable African-American and Caribbean immigrant communities including Little Haiti Overtown (home of the Lyric Theater) and Liberty City, Turtle Pond The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble which burst in 1925 the land boom left behind entire new cities such as Coral Gables Hialeah Miami Springs Opa-locka Miami Shores and Hollywood it also left behind the remains of failed development projects such as Aladdin City in south Miami-Dade County Fulford-by-the-Sea in what is now North Miami Beach Miami's Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay Boca Raton as it had originally been planned and Palm Beach Ocean just north of Palm Beach the land boom shaped Florida's future for decades and created entire new cities out of the Everglades land that remain today the story includes many parallels to the real estate boom of the 2000s including the forces of outside speculators easy credit access for buyers and rapidly appreciating property values. Main article: Transportation in South Florida, The Miami area has a large Jewish community; 10.2% of the population was Jewish in the 2000 Census.[citation needed] There is also a sizable Muslim community numbering 70,000, 11 Primary resources 6 History The Miami Dolphins of the National Football League play at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. In 1999 an evaluation of the C&SF was submitted to Congress as part of the Water Development Act of 1992 the seven-year report called the "Restudy" cited indicators of harm to the ecosystem: a 50 percent reduction in the original Everglades diminished water storage harmful timing of water releases from canals and pumping stations an 85 to 90 percent decrease in wading bird populations over the past 50 years and the decline of output from commercial fisheries Bodies of water including Lake Okeechobee the Caloosahatchee River St Lucie estuary Lake Worth Lagoon Biscayne Bay Florida Bay and the Everglades reflected drastic water level changes hypersalinity and dramatic changes in marine and freshwater ecosystems the Restudy noted the overall decline in water quality over the past 50 years was due to loss of wetlands that act as filters for polluted water it predicted that without intervention the entire South Florida ecosystem would deteriorate Water shortages would become common and some cities would have annual water restrictions; .