Allapattah is a neighborhood mostly in the City of Miami, Florida, and partly in an adjacent unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, United States.
It is located at 25°48′54″N 80°13′26″W / 25.815°N 80.224°W / 25.815; -80.224, with an elevation of 10 feet (3.0 m).
The name is derived from the Seminole Indian language word meaning alligator. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the area was known as the Allapattah Prairie. The area is northwe...
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Allapattah is a neighborhood mostly in the City of Miami, Florida, and partly in an adjacent unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, United States.
It is located at 25°48′54″N 80°13′26″W / 25.815°N 80.224°W / 25.815; -80.224, with an elevation of 10 feet (3.0 m).
The name is derived from the Seminole Indian language word meaning alligator. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the area was known as the Allapattah Prairie. The area is northwest of downtown, and about five miles east of Miami International Airport.
Allapattah was predominantly white from early in the 20th Century until the late 1950s, when there was a large influx of African-Americans displaced by the construction of Interstate Highway 95. Cubans began moving into the neighborhood in the 1960s. In the 1980s, there was an influx of Dominicans, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and later, Haitians. It was then that the area began to become the mix that it is today. Now, residents from all across the Caribbean, Central America,...
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