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Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FXE KFXE Broward Miami Florida Business directory. National Hurricane Center/National Weather Service 1995 11.3 Airports 6.2 Major airports, FIU is the largest university in South Florida the second-largest in Florida and the fourth-largest in the United States by enrollment Total enrollment in Fall 2016 was 55,112 students including 8,770 graduate students According to U.S News college rankings and reviews 92% of FIU students live off-campus while only 8% of students live in "college-owned college-operated or college-affiliated" housing. . . Miami Florida Business directory 2.2 Areas with between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants. Florida has 22 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Forty-three of Florida's 67 counties are in a MSA!

. Tourism is one of the Miami's largest private-sector industries accounting for more than 144,800 jobs in Miami-Dade County the city's frequent portrayal in music film and popular culture has made the city and its landmarks recognizable worldwide in 2016 it attracted the second-highest number of foreign tourists of any city in the United States after New York City and is among the top 20 cities worldwide by international visitor spending More than 15.9 million visitors arrived in Miami in 2017 adding US$26.1 billion to the economy With a large hotel infrastructure and the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center Miami is a popular destination for annual conventions and conferences, The metropolitan areas of Miami Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are located on a rise in elevation along the eastern coast of Florida called the Eastern Coastal Ridge that was formed as waves compressed ooids into a single formation Along the western border of the Big Cypress Swamp is the Immokolee Ridge (or Immokolee Rise) a slight rise of compressed sand that divides the runoff between the Caloosahatchee River and the Big Cypress This slight rise in elevation on both sides of the Everglades creates a basin and forces water that overflows Lake Okeechobee to creep toward the southwest Under both the Miami Limestone formation and the Fort Thompson limestone lies the Biscayne Aquifer a surface aquifer that serves as the Miami metropolitan area's fresh water source Rainfall and stored water in the Everglades replenish the Biscayne Aquifer directly. Beneath the plain lies the Biscayne Aquifer a natural underground source of fresh water that extends from southern Palm Beach County to Florida Bay it comes closest to the surface around the cities of Miami Springs and Hialeah Most of the Miami metropolitan area obtains its drinking water from the Biscayne Aquifer As a result of the aquifer it is not possible to dig more than 15 to 20 ft (5 to 6 m) beneath the city without hitting water which impedes underground construction though some underground parking garages exist for this reason the mass transit systems in and around Miami are elevated or at-grade, A national push for expansion and progress in the United States occurred in the later part of the 19th century which stimulated interest in draining the Everglades for agricultural use According to historians "From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century the United States went through a period in which wetland removal was not questioned Indeed it was considered the proper thing to do." Draining the Everglades was suggested as early as 1837 and a resolution in Congress was passed in 1842 that prompted Secretary of Treasury Robert J Walker to request those with experience in the Everglades to give their opinion on the possibility of drainage Many officers who had served in the Seminole Wars favored the idea in 1850 Congress passed a law that gave several states wetlands within their state boundaries the Swamp and Overflowed Lands Act ensured that the state would be responsible for funding the attempts at developing wetlands into farmlands Florida quickly formed a committee to consolidate grants to pay for any attempts though the Civil War and Reconstruction halted progress until after 1877. Personal income Contents, Florida International University (FIU) (public) Other professional teams 34.3% Cuban. 1964 56.1% 933,554 41.3% 686,297 Glenn Hubert Library (23.3) 78.2 KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam Florida's many state parks and protected areas receive a lot of visitors as well with 25.2 million visitors visiting Florida State Parks in 2013.