Typical summer afternoon thunderstorm rolling in from the Everglades Cost of living Bayfront Park Roads Tourism is one of the Miami's largest private-sector industries accounting for more than 144,800 jobs in Miami-Dade County the city's frequent portrayal in music film and popular culture has made the city and its landmarks recognizable worldwide in 2016 it attracted the second-highest number of foreign tourists of any city in the United States after New York City and is among the top 20 cities worldwide by international visitor spending More than 15.9 million visitors arrived in Miami in 2017 adding US$26.1 billion to the economy With a large hotel infrastructure and the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center Miami is a popular destination for annual conventions and conferences. In Florida each county is also a school district Each district is headed by an elected school board a professional superintendent manages the day-to-day operations of each district who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the School Board, Online availability no Limited 7.1 Kissimmee River, Locally known as Downtown the area is a cultural financial and commercial center of South Florida tracing its present-day history back to the 19th century in recent years Downtown Miami has grown and physically expanded to become the fastest-growing area in Miami with rapid increase in population and the greatest concentration of high-rises in the region Greater Downtown is home to many major museums parks education centers banks company headquarters courthouses government offices theaters shops and many of the oldest buildings in the city. Ryder Business Building 1992. University Park history 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! . In 2016 Florida had the highest percentage of West Indians in the United States at 4.5% with 2.3% (483,874) from Haitian ancestry 1.5% (303,527) Jamaican and 0.2% (31,966) Bahamian with the other West Indian groups making up the rest. 3 American Airlines 11,031 National County representation Green Library 1975 Florida International University has two major campuses in Miami the main campus University Park and its regional campus the Biscayne Bay Campus as well as several branch campuses and research facilities throughout South Florida in Tianjin China and in Nervi and Genoa Italy; Miami Florida Business directory, See also: List of mayors of Miami-Dade County Florida, Miami Florida Business directory!
. . . The land seemed to inspire extreme reactions of both wonder or hatred During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote "It is in fact a most hideous region to live in a perfect paradise for Indians alligators serpents frogs and every other kind of loathsome reptile." in 1897 explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River He sent his observations to the New Orleans Times-Democrat Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome with numerous springs and 10,000 alligators "more or less" in Lake Okeechobee the party encountered thousands of birds near the Shark River "killing hundreds but they continued to return" Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida writing "(w)e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.".
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