; . 4.2% Nicaraguan As with all vernacular regions South Florida has no official boundaries or status and is defined differently by different sources at different times a 2007 study of Florida's regions by Ary Lamme and Raymond K Oldakowski found that Floridians surveyed identified "South Florida" as comprising the southernmost sections of peninsular Florida That area includes the Miami metropolitan area (generally defined as Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties) the Florida Keys included in Monroe county and the interior region known as the Glades Additionally Southwest Florida representing the state's southern Gulf Coast has emerged as a directional vernacular region Some respondents from as far northwest as the southern Tampa Bay area identified their region as being in South Florida rather than Southwest or Central Florida However the University of South Florida founded in 1956 is located in Tampa at that time prior to the changes quickly brought by the Florida Constitution of 1968 south Florida was much less important politically and the term was used more loosely Tampa is not usually considered part of south Florida. Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, (27.3) 84.9 Pre-K: 1,533, See also: Transportation in Miami Miami International Airport (MIA) and PortMiami are among the nation's busiest ports of entry especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean PortMiami is the world's busiest cruise port and MIA is the busiest airport in Florida and the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America Due to its strength in international business finance and trade the city has among the largest concentration of international banks in the country primarily along Brickell Avenue in Brickell Miami's financial district Miami was the host city of the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations. Transportation Miami-Dade Transit serves University Park with Metrobus lines 8 11 24 and 71 Metrobus lines 75 and 135 serve the Biscayne Bay Campus Bus lines 8 11 and the 24 directly connect FIU with Downtown Miami, Everglades restoration received $96 million of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 As a result of the stimulus package a mile-long (1.6 km) bridge to replace the Tamiami Trail a road that borders Everglades National Park to the north and has blocked water from reaching the southern Everglades was begun by the Army Corps of Engineers in December 2009 the next month work began to reconstruct the C-111 canal east of the park that historically diverted water into Florida Bay Governor Charlie Crist announced the same month that $50 million of state funds would be earmarked for Everglades restoration in May 2010 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of bridges were proposed to be added to the Tamiami Trail.
Class of 2001, FDOT GIS data accessed January 2014, Miami Florida Business directory! . Following the demise of Eastern Air Lines in 1991 the concourse was used by a variety of Latin American carriers Many of these airlines' flights would arrive at Concourse B and then be towed to Concourse C for departure By the end of the decade the construction of American's baggage sorting facility between Concourses C and D saw the closure of all gates on the west side of the concourse with Gate C1 following soon afterward From the 2000s (decade) on the concourse consisted of just four domestic-only gates each of which were capable of accommodating small-to-medium jet aircraft from the Boeing 737 up to the Airbus A300 and American was the sole tenant. 9.2 Public transit Downtown is South Florida's main hub for finance commerce and international business Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S. (33.3) 92.0 Metropolitan divisions Government and infrastructure. . Homestead Air Reserve Base east of Homestead in an unincorporated area serves military traffic See also: Architecture of Miami and Architecture of Jacksonville. 5.2 Top government employers Since 1986 the university established its School of Architecture College of Law and College of Medicine (named the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in 1999 after Herbert Wertheim donated $20 million to the college which was matched by state funds and is the largest donation in the university's history) and acquired the historic Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach. 1982 64.7% 1,739,553 35.3% 949,013, 1.5 20th- and 21st-century growth, Lazy Lake 1900s to 1930s: the Magic City!
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