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Fire Rescue Contents Hispanic or Latino (of any race) were 44.2% [2,693,672] of the population; However this boom began to falter due to building construction delays and overload on the transport system caused by an excess of bulky building materials on January 10 1926 the Prinz Valdemar an old Danish warship on its way to becoming a floating hotel ran aground and blocked Miami Harbor for nearly a month Already overloaded the three major railway companies soon declared an embargo on all incoming goods except food the cost of living had skyrocketed and finding an affordable place to live was nearly impossible This economic bubble was already collapsing when the catastrophic Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 swept through ending whatever was left of the boom the Category 4 storm was the 12th most costly and 12th most deadly to strike the United States during the 20th century According to the Red Cross there were 373 fatalities but other estimates vary due to the large number of people listed as "missing" Between 25,000 and 50,000 people were left homeless in the Miami area the Great Depression followed causing more than sixteen thousand people in Miami to become unemployed As a result a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was opened in the area. OASIS is an interdisciplinary student group focused on supporting the growth of Christian professionals in the field of me]]ntal health.

! Jewish Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.03% Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties are the first second and third most populous counties in Florida and Miami-Dade with 2,761,581 people in 2018 is the seventh most populous county in the United States the three counties together are known as the Greater Miami Area and have principal cities including Miami Fort Lauderdale West Palm Beach Hialeah Pembroke Pines and Boca Raton Besides its association with the South Florida region which includes the Everglades and the Florida Keys it is also synonymous with an area known collectively as the "Gold Coast". QS in 2015 ranked FIU's MBA program 58th in North America 2.3% German Global Main article: List of Florida International University people. ; Interior view of concourse D, Sun Country Airlines Seasonal: Minneapolis/St Paul, Cultural institutions The first permanent European settlers arrived in the early 19th century People came from the Bahamas to South Florida and the Keys to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Great Florida Reef Some accepted Spanish land offers along the Miami River at about the same time the Seminole Indians arrived along with a group of runaway slaves the area was affected by the Second Seminole War during which Major William S Harney led several raids against the Indians Most non-Indian residents were soldiers stationed at Fort Dallas it was the most devastating Indian war in American history causing almost a total loss of population in Miami. 6.3 Drainage 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, Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001, Miami 399,457 362,470 Miami-Dade 6.5.2 Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project. . .