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Miami
(mīăm'ē,) City (1990 pop.
358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of
the Miami River; inc. 1896. The region of Greater Miami encompasses
all of Dade co., including Miami, Miami
Beach, Coral
Gables, Hialeah, and many smaller
communities. 
The second largest city in the state, a port of entry, and
the transportation and business hub of S Fla., it is also a popular
and famous resort of the E United States. Tourism remains a major
industry, closely followed by manufacturing and commerce. Miami has
an international airport and is the principal American port for
cruise ships to the Caribbean.
The city is also the
processing and shipping hub of a large agricultural region and a
center for rebuilding and repairing aircraft. Manufactures include
clothing, transportation equipment, machinery, plastics, and
electronic components. Other industries are printing and publishing,
fishing, and shell-fishing. Miami is the home to the National
Hurricane Center (at Florida International Univ.) and the
headquarters of the U.S. Armed Forces Southern Command, responsible
for military operations in Central and South
America.
Pro Player Stadium is home of professional football's Miami
Dolphins and baseball's Florida Marlins and the site of college
football's Orange Bowl contest. The Heat (basketball) plays in
Miami, and the Florida Panthers (hockey) in suburban Sunrise. Miami
is the seat of a number of institutions of higher education,
including Barry Univ., St. Thomas Univ., Florida Memorial College,
Florida International Univ., and the largest junior college in the
country (Miami-Dade Community College). The Univ. of Miami is in
nearby Coral Gables. A number of state parks, gardens, and major
tourist attractions are in the area.
The first modern settlement was made in the 1870s near the
site of Fort Dallas, built in 1836 during the Seminole
War, but it was preceded by more
ancient settlements, such as the Tequesta site unearthed in 1998. In
the 1890s, Henry M. Flagler made Miami a railroad
terminus, dredged the harbor, began a recreational center, and
promoted tourism. Miami received its greatest impetus during the
Florida land boom of the mid-1920s.
Since 1959 the large
influx of Cubans has created “Little Havana,” an ethnic sector that
has had sporadic racial unrest; by the 1990 census nearly 50% of the
city population was Hispanic, predominantly of Cuban
descent.
In Apr., 1980, the U.S. government agreed to allow 3,500
Cuban political refugees into the country; a national announcement
by Cuban leader Fidel Castro that those wanting to leave Cuba should
gather at Mariel, near Havana, resulted in the boatlift of more than
100,000 Cuban refugees to S Florida.
The 1980s and early
1990s were marked by large suburban growth, spurred by the increase
of high-technology industries in the Miami area. Metrorail, the city
transit system that opened in 1984, has been relatively
unsuccessful.
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