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.