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Demographics As rain continued to fall the slightly acidic rainwater dissolved the limestone as limestone wore away the groundwater came into contact with the land surface and created a massive wetland ecosystem Although the region appears flat weathering of the limestone created slight valleys and plateaus in some areas These plateaus rise and fall only a few inches but on the subtle South Florida topography these small variations affect both the flow of water and the types of vegetation that can take hold. .

. A local producer and noise-artist from the Miami Rock Scene Rat Bastard has recently been celebrated in a rock opera entitled "Hearing Damage (aka the Rat Opera)" the Rat Opera written by local performers Brian Franklin and Rob Elba features Rene Alvarez playing the part of Rat Rat co-founded the group to Live and Shave in L.A in 1993; Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda who lived with the tribes of southern Florida for seventeen years in the 16th century said that the Mayaimis lived in many towns of thirty or forty inhabitants each and that there were many more places where only a few people lived the game and fish of Lake Okeechobee provided most of the Mayaimis' food They used fishing weirs and ate Black bass eels American alligator tails Virginia opossum terrapins and snakes and processed coontie for flour in high-water season they lived on their mounds and ate only fish. . 6.5.1 Everglades National Park, 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement, 5.4 Cypress Miami Florida Business directory Miami is home to some of the nation's best high schools such as Design and Architecture High School ranked the nation's best magnet school MAST Academy Coral Reef High School ranked 20th-best public high school in the U.S. Miami Palmetto High School and the New World School of the Arts M-DCPS is also one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional bilingual education in Spanish French German Haitian Creole and Mandarin Chinese; FDOT GIS data accessed January 2014 In 2003 the Miami Herald and El Universal of Mexico City created an international joint venture and in 2004 they together launched the Herald Mexico a short-lived English-language newspaper for readers in Mexico Its final issue was published in May 2007. FIU also has international campuses in Asia and Europe the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum has a regional facility in Nervi Italy the School of Architecture has facilities in Genoa Italy for FIU's upper-division and graduate Architecture students and the Florida International University Tianjin Center in China from which a branch of the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management operates the Tianjin Center was constructed as a cooperative venture with the local municipal government and was opened in the Summer of 2006 FIU has also exchanged agreements with the American University in Dubai so that FIU students can now take a semester abroad in Dubai, (27.8) 78.4 The geology of South Florida together with a warm wet subtropical climate provides conditions well-suited for a large marshland ecosystem Layers of porous and permeable limestone create water-bearing rock and soil that affect the climate weather and hydrology of South Florida the properties of the rock underneath the Everglades can be explained by the geologic history of the state the crust underneath Florida was at one point part of the African region of the supercontinent Gondwana About 300 million years ago North America merged with Africa connecting Florida with North America Volcanic activity centered on the eastern side of Florida covered the prevalent sedimentary rock with igneous rock Continental rifting began to separate North America from Gondwana about 180 million years ago When Florida was part of Africa it was initially above water but during the cooler Jurassic Period the Florida Platform became a shallow marine environment in which sedimentary rocks were deposited Through the Cretaceous Period most of Florida remained a tropical sea floor of varying depths the peninsula has been covered by seawater at least seven times since the bedrock formed; 7 Coral Springs Broward 117,549 121,096 133,507 +10.25% In 2010 the largest ancestry groups were:!