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La Florida
Un estado muy interesante.
Tallahassee es la capital de Florida.
La Población
• Más que 14.000.000 de
habitantes viven en Florida.
• Más de 12% de las personas
son de origen hispano.
Clima
Subtropical
La Bandera de Florida
• Poblada por indígenas norteamericanos
antes de la llegada del explorador español
Ponce de Leon en 1513.
• Colonia francesa establecida en 1564.
• Colonia española establecida en 1565.
• España cedió el territorio a los Estados
Unidos en 1819.
Historia de la Florida
Ponce de León•Juan Ponce de León explored Florida for the first time in 1513.
•He named it Pascua Florida, meaning Flowery Easter.
•He discovered Florida while searching for the mythical Fountain of Youth.
In 1565 the Spanish founded St.
Augustine, the first European
settlement in what would become
the United States.
Nota Cultural
-The population of Florida is more than 14,000,000.
-People in south Florida are mostly bilingual.
-Spanish is spoken in the streets, stores, and schools.
• Kennedy Space Center
• The wetlands of Everglades
• Biscayne Bay
• The Venetian Municipal Pool
Atracciones turísticas
Biscayne Bay
• Provide a fine
setting for nearby
water sports
• Many people scuba
dive in the coral
reefs and keys.
Everglades wetlands
• Home to alligators,
manatees and
aquatic birds
• One of the United
States’ natural
treasures
Miami
• People of many backgrounds converge in Miami to play and listen to Caribbean music.
• Fiesta de la Calle Ochooccurs in Miami where people walk along 23 city blocks that are blocked off for the festival
• People can sample snacks from food stands and listen to musicians on several stages.
Little Havana
• Symbolic center of South Florida’s
thriving Cuban community.
• El parque Máximo Gómez, also
known at the Dominico Park.
• Park is popular with the Cuban
American community who come to
play chess and dominoes.
The Venetian
Municipal Pool
• It is carved out of solid coral
• Built in 1924 by George Merrick.
• First fully planned community in the nation.
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