Miami Beach is a city located in the county of Miami-Dade. It faces the city of Miami.
Originally created under the name of Ocean Beach, it took its current name in 1917. Its population is 95,000 inhabitants in 2016. 55.5% of its population was born abroad.
People of Tequesta, inhabited by the Tequesta Indians in the distant past, the once marshy and inhospitable land where Miami Beach now stands was not permanently occupied until the end of the nineteenth century.
There is often a tendency to believe that Miami Beach is a part of the city of Miami, although these are two distinct municipalities. Miami Beach officially became a city on March 26, 1915.
In 1979, the City’s Art Deco District History was registered in the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest architectural collection of Art Deco in the world.
The city of Miami Beach is located just a few miles from Downtown Miami, in the metropolitan area of Miami. The area of Miami Beach is 48.5 km2 of which 62.37%) in water bodies. Miami Beach encompasses a narrow elongated barrier island and 16 small islets spread across Biscayne Bay.
The mangroves that once covered the entire area west of Washington Avenue were dried up and filled, substantially altering the original outlines of the island. In 1905, the government had a waterway built on the southern tip of the island to connect Biscayne Bay with the Atlantic Ocean; the split end was christened Fisher Island.
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