Religion Although the Big Cypress is the largest growth of cypress swamps in South Florida cypress swamps can be found near the Atlantic Coastal Ridge and between Lake Okeechobee and the Eastern flatwoods as well as in sawgrass marshes Cypresses are deciduous conifers that are uniquely adapted to thrive in flooded conditions with buttressed trunks and root projections that protrude out of the water called "knees" Bald cypress trees grow in formations with the tallest and thickest trunks in the center rooted in the deepest peat As the peat thins out cypresses grow smaller and thinner giving the small forest the appearance of a dome from the outside They also grow in strands slightly elevated on a ridge of limestone bordered on either side by sloughs Other hardwood trees can be found in cypress domes such as red maple swamp bay and pop ash If cypresses are removed the hardwoods take over and the ecosystem is recategorized as a mixed swamp forest. ! 46% Religion in Florida (2014) The Venetian Causeway (left) and MacArthur Causeway (right) connect Downtown and South Beach Miami Beach. White (non-Hispanic): 15.4% (White total 73.8% when including White Hispanics) 3 Military See also: Miami Drug War The Sony Ericsson Open a major tennis tournament is held in Miami annually. Miami Florida Business directory The Miami area is also host to minor league sports college sports and other sports:. ! As of 2011 plans are underway for two new residence halls for 1,240 students called Parkview Hall to be built on the Panther Hall parking lot north of FIU Stadium Parkview Hall will be built in two phases in two separate buildings each housing 620 and 600 students respectively to be completed by Fall 2013 and Fall 2016. History Earthquakes are rare because Florida is not located near any tectonic plate boundaries, Florida is mostly low-lying and flat as this topographic map shows.
Second in power and number to the Calusa in South Florida were the Tequesta They occupied the southeastern portion of the lower peninsula in modern-day Dade and Broward counties Like the Calusa the Tequesta societies centered on the mouths of rivers Their main village was probably on the Miami River or Little River Spanish depictions of the Tequesta state that they were greatly feared by sailors who suspected them of torturing and killing survivors of shipwrecks With an increasing European presence in south Florida Native Americans from the Keys and other areas began increasing their trips to Cuba Official permission for the immigration of Native Americans from the Florida Keys was granted by Cuban officials in 1704 Spanish priests attempted to set up missions in 1743 but noted that the Tequesta were under assault from a neighboring tribe When only 30 members were left they were removed to Havana a British surveyor in 1770 described multiple deserted villages in the region where the Tequesta lived Common descriptions of Native Americans in Florida by 1820 used only the term "Seminoles", 5 Later years 8 Government and infrastructure The five largest sectors of employment in Florida are: trade transportation and utilities; government; professional and business services; education and health services; and leisure and hospitality in output the five largest sectors are: finance insurance real estate rental and leasing followed by professional and business services; government and government enterprises; educational services health care and social assistance; and retail trade. 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.", Following the 1959 Cuban revolution that unseated Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power most Cubans who were living in Miami returned to Cuba Soon after however many middle class and upper class Cubans moved to Florida en masse with few possessions Some Miamians were upset about this especially the African Americans who believed that the Cuban workers were taking their jobs.[citation needed] in addition the school systems struggled to educate the thousands of Spanish-speaking Cuban children Many Miamians fearing that the Cold War would become World War III left the city while others started building bomb shelters and stocking up on food and bottled water Many of Miami's Cuban refugees realized for the first time that it would be a long time before they would get back to Cuba in 1965 alone 100,000 Cubans packed into the twice daily "freedom flights" from Havana to Miami Most of the exiles settled into the Riverside neighborhood which began to take on the new name of "Little Havana" This area emerged as a predominantly Spanish-speaking community and Spanish speakers elsewhere in the city could conduct most of their daily business in their native tongue By the end of the 1960s more than four hundred thousand Cuban refugees were living in Dade County! . Kirill Reznik The Community Mental Health Clinic (CMHC) is a training clinic on the campus of Albizu University in San Juan Puerto Rico an active clinic that provides culturally sensitive mental health services to low income and minority clients in San Juan and surrounding communities CMHC also serves as a practicum and internship site for Albizu University graduate students, At the end of his life he was appointed as governor of Cuba shortly after his arrival He died in Santander Spain on 17 September 1574, Contents In 1992 Hurricane Andrew caused more than $20 billion in damage just south of the Miami-Dade area.
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