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Miami Fulfilled: a student of class 10 and Eugene Denisenkova

Miami city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida, in Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth most populous county in the United States.

Geographical position City of Miami and its suburbs are located on the plains between wetland Everglades and Biscayne Bay. Height of not more than 4. 5 meters above sea level. The main area of the city is located either on the Gulf Coast, or to natural or artificial barrier islands in the Gulf, the largest of which is the town of Miami Beach. The warm Gulf Stream ocean current flows only 24 kilometers off the coast of Miami, making it a warm and mild climate. Geological basis of territory Miami oolitic limestone. On top of it is fine, not more than 15 m thick layer of soil. Several parallel reef stretches from contemporary Miami to Dry Tortugas islands at the end of the Florida Keys archipelago. Between the reef and the land formed a large lagoon.

Climate The climate is tropical monsoon in Miami, with hot and humid summers and short, mild winters, with a pronounced dry season in winter. The elevation of above sea level, the coastal location, location right along the center line of the Tropical and proximity Gulf Stream is the major determinant of climate Miami. In January the average temperature is 19. 6 ° C, the wind is usually mild and warm, cold air usually appears after the passage of cold cyclone, which brings a host of short showers. Sometimes lowering the temperature to 10 ° C, and only very rarely - to 2 ° C, very rarely freeze. The highest temperature is usually kept in the 21 -25 ° C. The rainy season begins in May and ends in mid-October.

Education Public schools in Miami controlled Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which is the largest school district in Florida and the fourth largest in the entire United States. As of September 2008 it enrolled 385, 655 students and is located more than 392 schools and education centers. This district is also the largest in the U. S. by the concentration of students of other nationalities, in which 60% of students are Hispanic, 28% African American or West Indian American, 10% white and 2% other nationalities. In Miami are some of the best schools in the U. S. , for example, Design and Architecture High School, Confessions of the best federal magnet school, MAST Academy, Coral Reef High School, which went down in the top 20 public schools in the U. S. , Miami Palmetto High School, and the New World School of the Arts. M-DCPS is also one of the few public school districts in the U. S. that offer bilingual education in Spanish, Creole (Haiti) or Chinese.

Colleges and universities in and around Miami Barry University (private) Carlos Albizu University (private) Florida International University (FIU) (public) Florida Memorial University (private) Johnson and Wales University (private) Keiser University (private) Manchester Business School (branch of the British public) Miami Culinary Institute (public) Miami Dade College (public) Miami International University of Art & Design (private) Nova Southeastern University (private) St. Thomas University (private) Talmudic University (private) University of Miami (private)

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