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Nature Attractions In Miami

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Miami , officially the City of Miami, is the cultural, economic, and financial center of South Florida. Miami is the seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. It covers an area of about 56.6 square miles , between the Florida Everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay on the east. Miami is also the sixth most densely populated major city in the United States. The Miami metropolitan area, is home to 6.1 million people and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Miami's metro area is the second-most populous metropolis in the southeastern United States and fourth-largest urban area in the U.S.Miami is a major center, and a...
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  • 1. Zoo Miami Miami
    The Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens, also known as Zoo Miami, is a zoological park and garden near Miami, and the largest and oldest zoological garden in Florida. Originally established in 1948 at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Zoo Miami relocated in 1980 as Miami MetroZoo to the former location of the Richmond Naval Air Station, southwest of Miami in southern metropolitan Miami-Dade County, in the center of the census-designated places of Three Lakes , South Miami Heights , Palmetto Estates and Richmond West . The only tropical zoo in the continental United States, Zoo Miami houses over 3,000 animals on nearly 750 acres , 324 acres of which are developed. It is about 3 mi around if walked on the path, and features over 100 exhibits. The zoo's communications director is wildlife expe...
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  • 2. Zoological Wildlife Foundation Miami
    The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, located in Jacksonville, Florida, sits at the mouth of the Trout River, near where it flows into the St. Johns River. The zoo occupies approximately 117 acres and has over 2,000 animals and 1,000 plants in its collection. The zoo has grown from its modest beginnings in Springfield to be considered one of the city's premier attractions, with more than one million visitors in the past year. The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens' marquee attractions are the Range of the Jaguar, which won the 2005 AZA Exhibit of the year award and the Land of the Tiger, which opened in 2014 and features an innovative walk-through trail system for the two Sumatran and three Malayan tigers. Also included in the Land of the Tiger are wreathed and wrinkled hornbills, Visayan warty pigs...
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  • 3. Miami Seaquarium Miami
    The Miami Seaquarium is a 38-acre oceanarium located on the island of Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States and is located near downtown Miami. Founded in 1955, it is one of the oldest oceanariums in the United States. In addition to marine mammals, the Miami Seaquarium houses fish, sharks, sea turtles, birds, reptiles, and manatees. The park offers daily presentations and hosts overnight camps, events for boy scouts, and group programs. Over 500,000 people visit the facility annually. The park has around 225 employees, and its lease payments and taxes make it the third-largest contributor to Miami-Dade County’s revenue.
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  • 4. Bayfront Park Miami
    Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay. The Chairman to the trust is Joe Carollo.
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  • 6. Monkey Jungle Miami
    Monkey Jungle is a 30-acre wildlife park established in 1933 for the exhibition and study of endangered monkeys in semi-natural habitats. Many projects have been conducted at the park, which is a tourist attraction in the Miami, Florida area. The park is in Redland, Florida at Southwest 216th Street/Hainlin Mill Road near Southwest 147th Avenue. The park has about 500 primates of 18 different species running loose. Guests walk through a series of tunnel cages. Its tagline is Where the humans are caged and the monkeys run wild. It includes an Amazonian rainforest.
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  • 8. Matheson Hammock Park Miami
    Matheson Hammock Park is a 630 acres urban park in metropolitan Miami at 9610 Old Cutler Road, just south of Coral Gables, Florida. The park surrounds the north and western ends of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
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  • 9. Tropical Park Miami
    The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was a hyperactive and catastrophic hurricane season that, with a damage total of at least $282.27 billion , was the costliest tropical cyclone season on record. With over 3,300 estimated deaths, 2017 was the deadliest season since 2005 and also featured both the highest total accumulated cyclone energy and the highest number of major hurricanes since 2005. About 99.7% of the season's damage was due to three of the season's major hurricanes – Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Another notable hurricane, Nate, was the worst natural disaster in Costa Rican history; Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate had their names retired due to their high damage costs and loss of life. Featuring 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and 6 major hurricanes, the 2017 season ranks alongside 193...
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  • 10. Maximo Gomez Park Miami
    Máximo Gómez y Báez was a Major General in Cuba's Ten Years' War against Spain. He was also Cuba's military commander in that country's War of Independence .
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  • 11. Historic Virginia Key Beach Park Miami
    This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Miami, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.There are 183 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Miami-Dade County, including 6 National Historic Landmarks. Miami is the location of 74 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the remaining properties and districts are listed separately. One property, the Venetian Causeway, is split between Miami and Miami Beach, a...
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  • 12. The Kampong Miami
    The Kampong is a 9-acre botanical garden in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. It is one of the five gardens of the non-profit National Tropical Botanical Garden , and is open to visitors Wednesday through Saturday by advance reservation. An admission fee is charged.
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  • 13. Kennedy Park Miami
    David Thomas Kennedy was an American attorney and politician who was Mayor of Miami.Kennedy received his BA and MA from Florida State University and graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1958. He was elected to the City of Miami Commission in 1961. He was married to Marie Cicirelli Petit , then former City of Miami Commissioner Rosario Kennedy from 1978–1987. He was later married to ballerina, Miriam M. Suarez from 1989–1990. At the time of his death he lived in Coral Gables. There is also a park named after him, David T. Kennedy Park, in Coconut Grove, Miami. The park includes a dog park and the Dinner Key Marina.
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  • 15. Peacock Park Miami
    Peacock Park is a 9.4-acre public, urban park in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida on the shore of Biscayne Bay.
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