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, Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean angling north east of Australia turning sough after passing Alaska then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia continuing west below Africa then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada then angling east to southern Europe then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas' eastern coast and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle. 13.3 Hotel towers (41) 2.03 Miami Herald Media Company which owns the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald is headquartered in Doral Florida It is located in a two-story 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m2) building that had been the U.S Southern Command center the newspaper uses 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2) of space for office purposes in 2013 there were 650 people working there the newspaper had purchased land adjacent to the headquarters to build the 119,000-square-foot (11,100 m2) printing plant. . Some of the driest land in the Everglades is pineland (also called pine rockland) ecosystem located in the highest part of the Everglades with little to no hydroperiod Some floors however may have flooded solution holes or puddles for a few months at a time the most significant feature of the pineland is the single species of South Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii) Pineland communities require fire to maintain them and the trees have several adaptations that simultaneously promote and resist fire the sandy floor of the pine forest is covered with dry pine needles that are highly flammable South Florida slash pines are insulated by their bark to protect them from heat Fire eliminates competing vegetation on the forest floor and opens pine cones to germinate seeds a period without significant fire can turn pineland into a hardwood hammock as larger trees overtake the slash pines the understory shrubs in pine rocklands are the fire-resistant saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) and West Indian lilac (Tetrazygia bicolor) the most diverse group of plants in the pine community are the herbs of which there are two dozen species These plants contain tubers and other mechanisms that allow them to sprout quickly after being charred. .
Flood control As of 2010 28.07% of the population spoke only English at home while 63.77% of the population spoke Spanish 4.22% spoke French Creole (mainly Haitian Creole) 0.64% French and 0.55% Portuguese 52% of the county residents were born outside the United States while 71.93% of the population spoke a language other than English at home; 6.1 Native Americans 5.1 Top private employers Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base HST KHST Miami-Dade Major professional and D-I college teams (attendance > 10,000). . . ! 1960 935,047 88.9% Miami Dade College (public), In 2018 45,044,312 passengers traveled through the airport making it the 13th busiest airport in the United States and 40th busiest in the world by total passenger traffic It is the 3rd busiest airport in the United States by international passenger traffic MIA is Florida's busiest airport by total aircraft operations and total cargo traffic and its second busiest by total passenger traffic after Orlando International Airport. See also: Miami Drug War Taxis Climate Many journalists and readers of the Herald disagreed with the decision to fire rather than suspend DeFede arguing that it had been made in haste and that the punishment was disproportionate to the offense 528 journalists including about 200 current and former Herald staffers called on the Herald to reinstate DeFede but the paper's management refused to back down the state attorney's office later declined to file charges against the columnist holding that the potential violation was "without a (living) victim or a complainant". Growth of urban areas Since its signing the State of Florida reports that it has spent more than $2 billion on the various projects More than 36,000 acres (150 km2) of Stormwater Treatment Areas have been constructed to filter 2,500 short tons (2,300 t) of phosphorus from Everglades waters an STA spanning 17,000 acres (69 km2) was constructed in 2004 making it the largest manmade wetland in the world Fifty-five percent of the land necessary to acquire for restoration has been purchased by the State of Florida totaling 210,167 acres (850.52 km2) a plan to hasten the construction and funding of projects was put into place named "Acceler8" spurring the start of six of eight large construction projects including that of three large reservoirs However federal funds have not been forthcoming; CERP was signed when the U.S government had a budget surplus but since then deficits have renewed and two of CERP's major supporters in Congress retired According to a story in the New York Times state officials say the restoration is lost in a maze of "federal bureaucracy a victim of 'analysis paralysis'" CERP still remains controversial as the projects slated for Acceler8 environmental activists note are those that benefit urban areas and regions in the Everglades in desperate need of water are still being neglected suggesting that water is being diverted to make room for more people in an already overtaxed environment.
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