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Over time there have been numerous proposals for partitioning the state of Florida to form a separate state of South Florida Such proposals have usually been made as political statement rather than serious attempts at secession Reasons often stated are cultural ethnic economic and financial frustrations with the state government in Tallahassee which is in North Florida. The high surface salinity in the Atlantic on which the Atlantic thermohaline circulation is dependent is maintained by two processes: the Agulhas Leakage/Rings which brings salty Indian Ocean waters into the South Atlantic and the "Atmospheric Bridge" which evaporates subtropical Atlantic waters and exports it to the Pacific. The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth the few published accounts from that period describe the area as a wilderness that held much promise the area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida" After the Great Freeze of 1894 the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived Julia Tuttle a local landowner convinced Henry Flagler a railroad tycoon to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami on July 28 1896 Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300. Metrorail: Old and New Florida State Capitol Tallahassee East view The Miami-Dade County Public School District is currently the 4th-largest public school district in the nation the School District of Palm Beach County is the 4th-largest in Florida and the 11th-largest in the United States Broward County Public School District is the 6th-largest in the United States.

1.2 Joining the United States; Indian removal Calle Ocho Coral Way Flagami and West Flagler In terms of land area Miami is one of the smallest major cities in the United States According to the U.S Census Bureau the city encompasses a total area of 56.06 sq mi (145.2 km2) of which 35.99 sq mi (93.2 km2) is land and 20.08 sq mi (52.0 km2) is water That means Miami comprises over 470,000 people in about 36 square miles (93 km2) making it one of the most densely populated cities in the United States along with New York City San Francisco Boston Chicago and Philadelphia. 13 Sunrise Broward 85,779 84,439 95,458 +13.05% Environmental issues 1 History SR 112 (Airport Expressway): Interstate 95 to MIA 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.