There are five intermediate waters: four low-salinity waters formed at subpolar latitudes and one high-salinity formed through evaporation Arctic Intermediate Water flows from north to become the source for North Atlantic Deep Water south of the Greenland-Scotland sill These two intermediate waters have different salinity in the western and eastern basins the wide range of salinities in the North Atlantic is caused by the asymmetry of the northern subtropical gyre and the large number of contributions from a wide range of sources: Labrador Sea Norwegian-Greenland Sea Mediterranean and South Atlantic Intermediate Water, Twenty-first century Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre (NW 8th Street and 1st Avenue)! Housing characteristics: as of 2005 the Miami area had a total of 2.3 million housing units 13% of which were vacant Of the total housing units 52% were in single-unit structures 45% were in multi-unit structures and 3% were mobile homes 25% of the housing units were built since 1990 as of 2019 over 70% of Miami's residents are renters with median rent of $1,355 $180 over the national average. Little Havana, Historical population The Miami-Dade Police Department is a full-service metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas although it has lenient mutual aid agreements with other municipalities most often the City of Miami Police Department With 4,700 employees it is Florida's largest police department the Department is often referred to by its former name the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro, In 2008 the State of Florida agreed to buy U.S Sugar and all of its manufacturing and production facilities for an estimated $1.7 billion Florida officials indicated they intended to allow U.S Sugar to process for six more years before dismissing its employees and dismantling the plant the area which includes 187,000 acres (760 km2) of land would then be rehabilitated and water flow from Lake Okeechobee would be restored in November 2008 the agreement was revised to offer $1.34 billion allowing sugar mills in Clewiston to remain in production Critics of the revised plan say that it ensures sugarcane will be grown in the Everglades for at least another decade Further research is being done to address the continuing production of sugarcane in the Everglades to minimize phosphorus runoff. Brickell Avenue in Downtown Miami's Brickell Financial District, The third-costliest natural disaster to occur in the United States was Hurricane Andrew which hit Miami in the early morning of Monday August 24 1992 it struck the southern part of the county from due east south of Miami and very near Homestead Kendall and Cutler Ridge (now the Town of Cutler Bay) Damages numbered over US$25 billion in the county alone and recovery has taken years in these areas where the destruction was greatest This was the costliest natural disaster in US history until Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf region in 2005. . ! . See also: Florida locations by per capita income Florida statistical areas List of power stations in Florida List of metropolitan areas of Florida List of municipalities in Florida and List of urbanized areas in Florida (by population).
Hypoluxo Homestead General Aviation Airport, Endangered marine species include the manatee seals sea lions turtles and whales Drift net fishing can kill dolphins albatrosses and other seabirds (petrels auks) hastening the fish stock decline and contributing to international disputes Municipal pollution comes from the eastern United States southern Brazil and eastern Argentina; oil pollution in the Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico Lake Maracaibo Mediterranean Sea and North Sea; and industrial waste and municipal sewage pollution in the Baltic Sea North Sea and Mediterranean Sea, Central Baptist Church (Built in 1925) Florida also has more than 500 nonnative animal species and 1,000 nonnative insects found throughout the state Some exotic species living in Florida include the Burmese python green iguana veiled chameleon Argentine black and white tegu peacock bass mayan cichlid lionfish White-nosed coati rhesus macaque vervet monkey Cuban tree frog cane toad Indian peafowl monk parakeet tui parakeet and many more Some of these nonnative species do not pose a threat to any native species but some do threaten the native species of Florida by living in the state and eating them. . White or Caucasian (including White Hispanic) 72.6% 73.8% 75.0%, The Applied Marine Physics Building at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key, An embryonic subduction margin is potentially developing west of Gibraltar the Gibraltar Arc in the western Mediterranean is migrating westward into the Central Atlantic where it joins the converging African and Eurasian plates Together these three tectonic forces are slowly developing into a new subduction system in the eastern Atlantic Basin Meanwhile the Scotia Arc and Caribbean Plate in the western Atlantic Basin are eastward-propagating subduction systems that might together with the Gibraltar system represent the beginning of the closure of the Atlantic Ocean and the final stage of the Atlantic Wilson cycle. Downtown skyline circa 1930s with the Florida East Coast Railway passenger train station and the Dade County Courthouse in the foreground, Miami Herald's Silver Knight award winners, 4.3 Fire Several countries have consulates based in Downtown most of which are located along Biscayne Boulevard and Brickell Avenue These include:. Young Men's Preparatory School all-boys Tamarac 60,427 55,588 Broward Allapattah and Grapeland Heights; Miami Florida Business directory (23.9) 75.8 Miami Circle Brickell. ; .
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