Geography. Cutler Bay is located just west of Biscayne Bay at Coordinates. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP had a total area of 4.9 square miles (13 km 2). 4.8 square miles (12 km 2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) of it (2.26%) is water.The total square miles is ten. Cutler Ridge, an ancient coral formation, stretches from south Miami, …

Miami Beach est une ville américaine située dans le comté de Miami-Dade, dans le sud-est de l'État de Floride.Elle fait face à la ville de Miami, de laquelle elle est séparée par la baie de Biscayne à l'ouest, tandis qu'elle est baignée par l'océan Atlantique à l'est. Son architecture Art déco le long d'Ocean Drive (Miami Beach Architectural District) et ses grandes plages en font ...

Surfside is a town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.The population was 5,689 as of the 2020 census. Surfside is a primarily residential beachside community, with several multistory condominium buildings adjacent to Surfside Beach on the Atlantic Ocean. The town is bordered on the south by the North Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, on the north by Bal Harbour, …

The Bay of Biscay (/ ˈ b ɪ s k eɪ,-k i /), known in Spain as the Gulf of Biscay (Spanish: Golfo de Vizcaya, Basque: Bizkaiko Golkoa), and in France and some border regions as the Gulf of Gascony (French: Golfe de Gascogne, Occitan: Golf de Gasconha, Breton: Pleg-mor Gwaskogn), is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.It lies along the …

The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de los Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba.By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was reassigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba.

One Biscayne Tower is an office skyscraper in Miami, Florida, United States.It is located on the eastern edge of Downtown Miami, on South Biscayne Boulevard.It comprises Class A office space completely. The approximately 983,000 square feet building contains 39 floors and is 492 ft (150 m) tall, to the roof.. When built in 1972, it ended the Dade County Courthouse's 44-year …

The U.S. state of Florida has a total of 4,510 islands that are ten acres or larger. This is the second-highest number of islands of any state of the United States; only Alaska has more.. Major island chains include the Florida Keys, the Ten Thousand Islands, the Sea Islands, and the barrier islands of the Atlantic coast, the Panhandle Gulf of Mexico coast, and the Tampa Bay Area …

Wrangell—St. Elias National Park and Preserve is an American national park and preserve managed by the National Park Service in south central Alaska.The park and preserve were established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The protected areas are included in an International Biosphere Reserve and are part of the Kluane/Wrangell–St. …

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United States. It is also Florida's third largest county in terms of land area, with 1,946 square miles (5,040 km 2).

History. El Portal is a small, diverse enclave between Miami Shores and Miami.It was incorporated on December 6, 1937. The enclave was originally the capital of the Tequesta tribal area, and was visited by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in the 1560s. Three small subdivisions (now neighborhoods)—Sherwood Forest, El Jardin (Spanish for "The Garden"), and El …

Biscayne Bay operates widely throughout the great lakes. Primary areas of operation are the Straits of Mackinac and the St. Mary's River. In addition, the cutter operates in the St. Clair/Detroit River system, Green Bay, WI, Duluth, MN, and Thunder Bay, Ontario. USCGC Bristol Bay (WTGB-102) is a 140-foot icebreaking tug stationed in Detroit, MI.

Edgewater is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, located north of Downtown and the Arts & Entertainment District, and south of Midtown and the Upper Eastside. It is roughly bound by North 17th Street to the south, North 37th Street to the north, the Florida East Coast Railway and East First Avenue to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east.. Edgewater is primarily a residential …

Bay Harbor Islands is a small, quaint community separated from the Miami mainland by a causeway. Along a beautifully landscaped concourse in the center of town, there are plenty of great shopping and fine dining options to enjoy, as well as two public art sculptures — Romero Brito’s “Heart” and Robert Indiana’s “Love”.

In Juan Ponce de León stopped at a bay on the Florida coast that he called Chequesta, which apparently was what is now called Biscayne Bay. In 1565 one of the ships in Pedro Menéndez de Avilés' fleet took refuge from a storm in Biscayne Bay. The main Tequesta village was located there, and Menéndez was well received by the Tequestas.