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4 Culture Following the 1926 Miami hurricane many schools were destroyed the hurricane ended the 1920s land boom in Miami and ushered in the Great Depression to the area long before the actual market crash of 1929 the crash forced many more schools not destroyed by the hurricane to be closed Beginning in 1930 the school board faced its first overcrowding and funding problems. (70) 2.56 (113) 8.70 Native Americans Concourse H Water is the dominant force in the Everglades shaping the land vegetation and animal life in South Florida Starting at the last glacial maximum 21,000 years ago continental ice sheets retreated and sea levels rose This submerged portions of the Florida peninsula and caused the water table to rise Fresh water saturated the limestone that underlies the Everglades eroding some of it away and created springs and sinkholes the abundance of fresh water allowed new vegetation to take root and formed convective thunderstorms over the land through evaporation. Until the mid-20th century Florida was the least populous state in the southern United States in 1900 its population was only 528,542 of whom nearly 44% were African American the same proportion as before the Civil War the boll weevil devastated cotton crops, 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, Central Atlantic Main article: Miami-Dade Transit. Juno Beach 1920 968,470 28.7% Andreas School of Business.

2.2 Adjacent counties WBRY is Barry University's student-run campus radio station and is broadcast on 1640 AM Student DJs play "all kinds of music from hip hop to classic rock classical music to inner city blues." Other programming includes sports shows talk shows and daily news. The airport is one of the largest in terms of cargo in the United States and is the primary connecting point for cargo between Latin America and the world in 2018 Miami International Airport served 2.3 million tons of freight Ninety-six different carriers are involved in shifting over two million tons of freight annually and ensuring the safe travel of over 40 million passengers according to the Miami International Airport corporate brochure it was first in International freight and third in total freight for 2008 in 2000 LAN Cargo opened up a major operations base at the airport and currently operates a large cargo facility at the airport Most major passenger airlines such as American Airlines use the airport to carry hold cargo on passenger flights though most cargo is transported by all-cargo airlines UPS Airlines and FedEx Express both base their major Latin American operations at MIA. 7.4 Atlantic World Planned water recovery and storage implementation using CERP strategies.