Guide to Miami

The city
Miami (Miami) is a city located on the Atlantic coast in south-eastern Florida (Florida). Miami is forty-fourth largest U.S. cities with a population of 399,457 people. This is the main, central and most populated city in South Florida and most populous metropolis in the southeast. Miami is recognized as the fourth largest urbanized area of the United States after New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Miami has received official city status in the twenty-eighth in July 1896 when the territory lived little more than three hundred. In 1940, the city lived 172,000 people. In downtown Miami is the largest concentration of international banks in the country, this is the place of domicile of many major companies nationally and internationally. In the field, which today extends Miami Indians lived. They engaged in fishing, hunting and gathering wild fruits and roots to survive. Indians, who lived on the territory of present-day Miami, are not practiced agriculture. The first European to visit this place, was the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon (Juan Ponce De Leon), who swam in the bay in 1513. Records his testimony that he visited the site, what was the first name of Miami. I never became clear that Leon has descended on the coast and is in contact with the locals. By the mid-eighteenth century lived in this region the small tribe of Miami, whose name later derived the name of the city. The first European who is surely going ashore is Menendez December Pedro Aviles (Pedro Menendez de Aviles), who along with his crew visited this area in 1566 to seek his son, who years earlier had been shipwrecked on these places. The first European settlers appeared in southern Florida occurred in the early nineteenth century. They arrived in search of treasure ships crashed into the waters to the Great Florida Reef (Great Florida reef).Some of the Europeans began to settle in the territory of the Spanish possessions along the River Miami. At this time came from the tribe of Indians (Seminole), among which there were black slaves who escaped from their owners. As a result of the conflict