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. The IIF was able to invest in development projects due to Disston's purchase and an opportunity to improve transportation arose when oil tycoon Henry Flagler began purchasing land and building rail lines along the east coast of Florida as far south as Palm Beach in 1893 Along the way he built resort hotels transforming territorial outposts into tourist destinations the land bordering the rail lines was developed as citrus farms by 1896 the rail line had been extended to Biscayne Bay Three months after the first train had arrived the residents of Miami voted to incorporate the town Miami became a prime destination for extremely wealthy people after the Royal Palm Hotel was opened. The Everglades hosts 1,392 exotic plant species actively reproducing in the region outnumbering the 1,301 species considered native to South Florida the melaleuca tree (Melaleuca quinquenervia) takes water in greater amounts than other trees Melaleucas grow taller and more densely in the Everglades than in their native Australia making them unsuitable as nesting areas for birds with wide wingspans They also choke out native vegetation More than $2 million has been spent on keeping them out of Everglades National Park; !

Health (181) 7.42 5 See also Metric conversion. . 18 Lauderhill Broward 57,585 66,887 72,094 +7.78% From the Glades peoples two major nations emerged in the area: the Calusa and the Tequesta the Calusa was the largest and most powerful nation in South Florida it controlled fifty villages located on Florida's west coast around Lake Okeechobee and on the Florida Keys Most Calusa villages were located at the mouths of rivers or on key islands the Calusa were hunter-gatherers who lived on small game fish turtles alligators shellfish and various plants Most of their tools were made of bone or teeth although sharpened reeds were also effective for hunting or war Calusa weapons consisted of bows and arrows atlatls and spears Canoes were used for transportation and South Florida tribes often canoed through the Everglades but rarely lived in them Canoe trips to Cuba were also common, In 1922 a historic moment in cartography and oceanography occurred the USS Stewart used a Navy Sonic Depth Finder to draw a continuous map across the bed of the Atlantic This involved little guesswork because the idea of sonar is straight forward with pulses being sent from the vessel which bounce off the ocean floor then return to the vessel the deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps abyssal plains trenches seamounts basins plateaus canyons and some guyots Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11% of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise, Expansion Tri-Rail a commuter rail system operated by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) runs from Miami International Airport northward to West Palm Beach making eighteen stops throughout Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties. Language and national origin 4.3 Student media BB&T Center home of the Florida Panthers, Grade 3: 28,679 Places of worship. 3.4 Former concourses The previous headquarters One Herald Plaza were located on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) plot in Biscayne Bay Miami This facility opened in March 1963 in 2011 the Genting Group a Malaysian company offered to pay the Miami Herald Media Company $236 million for the current headquarters property the company began scouting for a new headquarters location after finalizing the sale the then president and publisher of the media company David Landsberg stated that it was not necessary at that point to be located in the city center and remaining there would be too expensive the newspaper moved to its current Doral headquarters in May 2013 on April 28 2014 demolition began on the building on Biscayne Bay between the MacArthur and Venetian causeways. Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa Miami-Dade is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora mostly in the Pleistocene.