PortMiami

GEOGRAPHY: "Miami-Dade County area: 1,955 square miles / 3,145 square kilometers Elevation: 12 feet / 3.6 meters / 15+ miles of beaches CLIMATE: Subtropical annual average daily temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit / 23 degrees Celsius RECREATION: 8800+ parks, including Crandon Beach County Park and Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, consistently in... Dr. Beachs top 10 Best Beaches in the U.S. Miami is also home to two unique national parks, Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park. Award-winning tennis and golf are popular here, as well as water sports, such as parasailing, windsurfing, wave-running and jet-skiing. MIA is currently the no. 2 gateway in the U.S. for international arrivals (18.4 million in 2011). MIA welcomed a total of 38.3 million passengers in 2011. MIA was recognized as the U.S. airport with the most new airlines in 2011 by industry website Anna.Aero (Airline Network News and Analysis). New service in 2011 included: Delta, Arkefly, Iberia, TAP Portugal, Transaero and VivaAerobus; new service in 2012 includes LAN Colombia, Interjet, American (Barcelona) and increased service from Brazil (Belo Horizonte & Brasilia) and Dutch Antilles Express from Curacao. As of June 2012, American Airlines will serve Manaus and GOL will serve MIA from Sao Paulo and Caracas. In September, the MIA Mover, a 1.25-mile-long (2 kilometers) automated people mover system opened between MIAs main terminal and the Rental Car Center. PortMiami, Cruise Capital of the World, handled more than four million passengers in 2011. This marked the fourth year in a row in which the Port topped the four million mark for cruise traffic. During winter 2012, PortMiami will welcome three new build vessels to its fleet (Carnival Breeze, Celebrity Reflection and Oceania Riviera). Regent Seven Seas Cruises will join its sister company, Oceania Cruises, and homeport at the PortMiami beginning in fall 2012. Miami will welcome Disney Cruise Line to South Florida for the first time in winter 2012. For more information on the Port, ...Read More