Current adult/vocational students: 17,124 Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, 1920 29,571 440.5% Many beach towns are popular tourist destinations particularly during winter and spring break Twenty-three million tourists visited Florida beaches in 2000 spending $22 billion the public has a right to beach access under the public trust doctrine but some areas have access effectively blocked by private owners for a long distance. Toll Florida 874.svg State Road 874 (Don Shula Expressway) Wilton Manors Student organizations! . . Virgin Trains USA maintenance facility This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (January 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)! Taxis are popular in Downtown especially from Downtown to South Beach Design District or to Coconut Grove Since many Downtown residents choose to not have cars taxis are also popular for rides within Downtown neighborhoods especially after midnight when the Metromover stops running Taxis can be hailed on the street or phoned. Joining the United States; Indian removal The breakdown of students is shown below Reptiles: eastern diamondback and pygmy rattlesnakes gopher tortoise green and leatherback sea turtles and eastern indigo snake in 2012 there were about one million American alligators and 1,500 crocodiles Birds: peregrine falcon bald eagle American flamingo northern caracara snail kite osprey white and brown pelicans sea gulls whooping and sandhill cranes roseate spoonbill American white ibis Florida scrub jay (state endemic) and others One subspecies of wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo namely subspecies osceola is found only in Florida the state is a wintering location for many species of eastern North American birds.
. . ! Much of Florida is on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico the Atlantic Ocean and the Straits of Florida Spanning two time zones it extends to the northwest into a panhandle extending along the northern Gulf of Mexico It is bordered on the north by Georgia and Alabama and on the west at the end of the panhandle by Alabama It is the only state that borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico Florida also is the southernmost state in the 48 contiguous states with Hawaii being the only state reaching farther south Florida is west of the Bahamas and 90 miles (140 km) north of Cuba Florida is one of the largest states east of the Mississippi River and only Alaska and Michigan are larger in water area the water boundary is 3 nautical miles (3.5 mi; 5.6 km) offshore in the Atlantic Ocean and 9 nautical miles (10 mi; 17 km) offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. . Cuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel Boatlift crisis, 6.5 Flood control 1.2 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement The Walk on Water race held annually by the School of Architecture. .
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