Aventura, Florida City of Aventura, Florida Aventura S Official seal of City of Aventura, Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Enumeration Bureau map showing town/city limits Enumeration Bureau map showing town/city limits Aventura is a planned, suburban town/city located in northeastern Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
The town/city name is from the Spanish word for "adventure", and was titled "Aventura" after one of the developers of the initial group of condominiums in the region remarked to the others, "What an adventure this is going to be." The name predates the well known mall (Aventura Mall) assembled near the condominium developments.
Enumeration estimates of 2010, the town/city had a populace of 35,762. Aventura is positioned 18 miles north of the town/city of Miami.
Aventura began its evolution amid the early 1970s.
Aventura became an incorporated town/city in 1995.
The Aventura Police Department was formed in 1997. Aventura is home to the luxury resort Turnberry Isle, where the yacht Monkey Business was docked amid the Gary Hart/Donna Rice incident, which contributed to Hart ending his 1988 bid for presidency. The Aventura Mall, the fifth-largest shopping mall in the US, is also positioned here,.
Aventura has its own newspaper, Aventura News, which is presented weekly and is part of the Miami Community Newspapers, The Voice of the Community.
Aventura is served by the Miami Ft.
The town/city has a periodical titled Aventura Magazine and is served by The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. Aventura is positioned at 25 57 52 N 80 08 09 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.5 square miles (9.1 square kilometers).
Aventura has a tropical monsoon climate (Koppen climate classification Am) with hot and humid summers and short, warm winters, with a marked drier season in the winter.
Aventura was severely hit by Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005 and was still undergoing recovery as of November 2011.
Aventura Demographics 2010 Enumeration Aventura Miami-Dade County Florida In 2000, the town/city population was spread out with 10.1% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 35.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Besides American Jews, Aventura also has experienced a momentous influx of Hispanic Jews (especially Argentine, Colombian, Cuban, and Venezuelan Jews,) Brazilian, Canadian, and European Jews (incl.
As of 2000, Aventura had the seventeenth-highest percentage of Brazilian inhabitants in the US, with 1.9% of the US populace. the thirtieth-highest percentage of Colombian inhabitants in the US, at 4.25% of the city's population, and the ninety-second-highest percentage of Cuban inhabitants in the US, at 2.89% of the city's population. It also had the twelfth-most Israelis in the US, at 2.4%, while it had the thirteenth-highest percentage of Romanians (tied with Hartford, Ohio and Bern, Pennsylvania,) at 1.8% of all residents. Aventura's Russian improve had the twenty-fifth-highest percentage of residents, which was at 12.4%, while it was the thirteenth-highest Venezuelan improve in the US, which made up 1.31% of the population. Early afternoon congestion in Aventura on Biscayne Boulevard (US 1) The Aventura Express shuttle bus is a town/city run enhance bus service, no-charge to Aventura residents.
Miami-Dade Transit's Metrobus and Broward County Transit bus systems also run through the city.
Aventura is one of Miami-Dade's most car-centric neighborhoods, and due to the increasing populace growth over a 25-year period, traffic has turn into congested, despite the fact that Biscayne Boulevard (US 1) is up to ten lanes wide through the city.
Buildings in Aventura have large parking lots or garages that are often free, encouraging car use.
For example, Aventura Mall has nearly 10,000 no-charge parking spaces.
By 2015, Tri-Rail commuter rail service may run on the FEC line that runs alongside to Biscayne Boulevard through Aventura.
Until then, Aventura has no other means of transit other than roads.
One of the proposed lines for the Miami Metrorail was a corridor that would follow US 1 from downtown Miami to the Dade-Broward County line between Aventura and Hallandale Beach.
The most famous shopping attraction is Aventura Mall, a 2,400,000 sq ft (222,967 m2) indoor shopping center.
The outside malls are "Loehmann's Fashion Island", "Aventura Shopping Center", "Aventura Commons", "The Promenade Shops", and "The Shoppes at the Waterways".
The town/city also has its own exclusive parks and recreation department which operate Founders Park, Founders Park Bayside, Waterways Park, Waterways Dog Park, Veterans Park, The Community Recreation Center, and the new Liberal Arts theater.
In the center of the heart of Aventura is The Turnberry Golf Course encapsulated by Aventura's Country Club Drive Circle, a multimillion dollar horticultural three-mile walking/jogging paved promenade which overlooks lakes, opulent residentiary highrises, yachts and the Atlantic Ocean.
Aventura is served by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools system.
Aventura Waterways K 8 Center serves as the enhance K-8 school of MDCPS which serves Aventura.
The school is positioned outside of the town/city limits but all kids that live in Aventura are in the boundary for that school.
Michael Krop High School in unincorporated Miami-Dade County is presently the sole high school serving Aventura residents.
In 2012, even though Krop had a strong academic reputation, some parents in the Aventura region were promoting the idea of the town/city starting a charter high school.
There is also a charter school established with sponsorship from the municipal government, Aventura City of Excellence School, a K-8 school.
It was for years the only enhance school positioned inside the City of Aventura.
Children who live in Aventura are given admission preference amid the admission lottery held every year.
Aventura city, Florida, United States Enumeration Bureau.
"City of Aventura - History".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Enumeration figures in 1980 & 1990 were enumerated before to incorporation as Aventura CDP.
"Modern Language Association Data Results of Aventura, Florida".
City of Aventura Aventura Waterways K-8 Center Aventura City of Excellence School - Charter K-8 Municipalities and communities of Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
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