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North Central Florida, Downtown Miami seen from the Rusty Pelican restaurant on Virginia Key, Later years See also: Transportation in Miami. The Florida Reef is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States It is also the third largest coral barrier reef system in the world after the Great Barrier Reef and the Belize Barrier Reef the reef lies a little bit off of the coast of the Florida Keys a lot of the reef lies within John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park which was the first underwater park in the United States the park contains a lot of tropical vegetation marine life and seabirds the Florida Reef extends into other parks and sanctuaries as well including Dry Tortugas National Park Biscayne National Park and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Almost 1,400 species of marine plants and animals including more than 40 species of stony corals and 500 species of fish live on the Florida Reef the Florida Reef being a delicate ecosystem like other coral reefs faces many threats including overfishing plastics in the ocean coral bleaching rising sea levels and changes in sea surface temperature. Cape Florida Light a lighthouse on Cape Florida at the south end of Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County Florida Constructed in 1825, (53) 1.38 Germany 1,322,000,000 1,145,973,941.19 7.77 6.26 Year Democratic Republican David Johnson c.?1990 Photographer, Public organizations with their main offices in Downtown include the central offices of the Beacon Council the Downtown Development Authority Miami-Dade County government Miami-Dade County Public Schools Miami Police Department and Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation as well as numerous City of Miami departments despite city hall's location in Coconut Grove. . Manny Diaz FIU graduates have consistently performed well on the Florida Bar Exam Graduates achieved the highest passage rate among all Florida law schools on the July 2015 February 2016 and July 2016 exams in 2007 the College of Law was ranked 1st in Florida in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam at 96% in July 2008 the College of Law achieved a 90.6% passing rate which placed it 2nd among Florida's ten law schools in February 2009 the College of Law achieved an 81.5% passing rate which placed it 1st among Florida's ten law schools, Main article: Transportation in Florida, 8.3 Other areas and attractions Main article: Draining and development of the Everglades; 3.7.4 Medical Library Hillsboro Pines 1970 1,267,792 35.6% Miami Florida Business directory. .

Nova Southeastern University (private), Florida has 67 counties Some reference materials may show only 66 because Duval County is consolidated with the City of Jacksonville There are 379 cities in Florida (out of 411) that report regularly to the Florida Department of Revenue but there are other incorporated municipalities that do not the state government's primary revenue source is sales tax Florida does not impose a personal income tax the primary revenue source for cities and counties is property tax; unpaid taxes are subject to tax sales which are held (at the county level) in May and (due to the extensive use of online bidding sites) are highly popular, In 1937 the local Ku Klux Klan raided La Paloma an LGBT nightclub After the non-lethal raid the nightclub became a site of a more solidified LGBT community and resistance against conservative sexual laws. Academics 2 Special features Restoration (24.5) A street grid stretches from downtown Miami throughout the county This grid was adopted by the City of Miami following World War I after the United States Post Office threatened to cease mail deliveries in the city because the original system of named streets with names often changing every few blocks and multiple streets in the city sharing the same name was too confusing for the mail carriers the new grid was later extended throughout the county as the population grew west south and north of city limits. Fort Lauderdale (Amtrak/Tri-Rail) Silver Service Tri-Rail, Student Government Association, In 1939 Florida was described as "still very largely an empty State." Subsequently the growing availability of air conditioning the climate and a low cost of living made the state a haven Migration from the Rust Belt and the Northeast sharply increased Florida's population after 1945 in the 1960s many refugees from Cuba fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime arrived in Miami at the Freedom Tower where the federal government used the facility to process document and provide medical and dental services for the newcomers As a result the Freedom Tower was also called the "Ellis Island of the South." in recent decades more migrants have come for the jobs in a developing economy! Main article: Miami-Dade Transit, When the first Europeans visited in the mid-1500s the inhabitants of the Miami area were the Tequesta people who controlled an area covering much of southeastern Florida including what is now Miami-Dade County Broward County and the southern parts of Palm Beach County the Tequesta Indians fished hunted and gathered the fruit and roots of plants for food but did not practice any form of agriculture They buried the small bones of the deceased but put the larger bones in a box for the village people to see the Tequesta are credited with making the Miami Circle. . 5 Education 10 Bibliography Deerfield Beach 75,018 64,585 Broward Main article: Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, FIU MUN also hosts an annual high school conference: Florida International Model United Nations (FIMUN) the conference traditionally hosts over 400 high school students from 20 or more high schools from Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach Counties; Contents North Atlantic 1950 693,705 79.0% Calle Ocho In 2014 the City of South Miami passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half with a northern boundary drawn to include the counties of Brevard Orange Polk Hillsborough and Pinellas (roughly the Tampa Bay and Orlando areas) in total the proposed State of South Florida would have included 24 counties. The invasive species that causes the most damage to bird populations is the cat (Felis catus) both domestic and feral Cats that are let outside live close to suburban populations and have been estimated to number 640 per square mile in such close numbers in historic migratory areas they have devastating effects on migratory bird populations, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen North Palm Beach.