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MIAMI
B Y E D O A R D O C E N C I A R I N I
Miami is on the south-east coast of the USA.
It is a city in the United States of America with
430,332 inhabitants. It’s the capital of Miami-Dade
County, Florida.
Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of
south Florida in the southeastern United States.
Miami and its suburbs are located on a broad
plain between the Florida Everglades to the
west and Biscayne Bay to the east, which also
extends from Florida Bay north to Lake
Okeechobee.
Miami has a rocky territory, beneath there is
the aquifer of the Biscayne Aquifer, a natural
underground freshwater spring that extends
from the southern part of Palm Beach County
to Florida Bay.
Miami is characterized by a tropical climate
with particularly rainy summer due to
thunderstorms and exposed at risk of
hurricanes.
Geography
Destruction of
Hurricane Andrew
What can you see in Miami ?
Coral Castle is an oolite limestone
structure created by the Latvian
American Edward Leedskalnin . The
grounds of Coral Castle consist of
1,100 short tons
of stones in the form of walls,
carvings, furniture and a castle
tower. Commonly believed to be
made of coral, it is made of oolite,
also known as oolitic limestone.
Matheson Hammock Park is a urban
park in metropolitan Miami.
The park surrounds the north and
western ends of Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden.
What can you see in Miami ?Key Biscayne is an island located in Miami-Dade County,
Florida, United States, between the Atlantic Ocean and
Biscayne Bay. It is in the south of the barrier islands along
the Atlantic coast of Florida, and it is in the south of
Miami Beach and south-east of Miami. The key is
connected to Miami via the Rickenbacker Causeway,
originally built in 1947.
The northern portion of Key Biscayne is home to
Crandon Park, a county park. The middle section of the
island consists of the incorporated Village of Key
Biscayne.
Bayfront Park is a public park in Downtown Miami,
on Biscayne Bay.
Bayfront Park holds the city's annual "America's
Birthday Bash" on Independence Day, which
attracted over 60,000 visitors in 2011. The park also
hosts the city's official New Year's Eve party that
annually hosts over 70,000 visitors.