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.