Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
BRAZILIAN MIAMI
Miami's Brazilians are mainly found in Northern Miami Beach: working, partying, eating
and blending into the Miami milieu. Well, those Brazilians who live in Greater Miami prop-
er. There is a noticeably large population of temporary Brazilians in the city, including
shoppers who come here to buy electronics and clothes that lack Brazil's import duties,
and a glut of designers, DJs, musicians, fashionistas, models and their respective entour-
ages; these Brazilians tend to base themselves in South Beach with the other jet-setters.
Boteco
Popular Brazilian watering hole.
COLOMBIAN MIAMI
You'll find many Colombians with their South American brethren in Northern Miami
Beach, but there are also plenty of Colombians in Coral Gables (where the Colombian
consulate is located). A poorer component of the Colombian population lives in parts of
downtown and in the city's vast suburbs. Colombian politics are difficult to pigeonhole, as
Colombian migrants have come to the USA fleeing from both left- and right-wing over-
throws.
La Moon
Late night Colombian eats attract the Colombian community.
NICARAGUAN MIAMI
Nicaraguans make up a large percentage of the population of 'Cuban' areas such as Little
Havana. It is the Nicaraguans who are leading the way, currently, to more settlement from
Central America.
Yambo
An enormously good value fritanga(Nicaraguan diner).
The Everglades
Rural Florida can still evoke America's western frontier, and the Everglades, the wildest
part of the state, are still very much a hinterland populated by either frontier types, or
people who self-conceptualize as frontier types. The Old West trope is exacerbated by the
fact there is still a settlement pattern here of colonizers and Native Americans; the Semin-
ole and Miccosukee tribes constitute a major part of the 'Glades' population. Their neigh-
bors in Homestead and Everglades City are largely descended from those who came here
in the 19th century, after the West was won, when Florida became one of the last places
