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The name "Everglades" first appeared on a map in 1823, although it was also spelled as "Ever Glades" as late as 1851. [5] The Seminole call it Pahokee, meaning "Grassy Water". [6] The region was labeled "Pa-hai-okee" on a U.S. military map from 1839, although it had earlier been called "Ever Glades" throughout the Second Seminole War. [4]
The Everglades are a network of wetlands and forests fed by a river flowing 0.25 miles (0.40 km) per day out of Lake Okeechobee, southwest into Florida Bay. [7] The park is the most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds in North America and contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere. [ 8 ]
The Everglades are unique; no other wetland system in the world is nourished primarily from the atmosphere. [5] Before the first attempt at draining the Everglades in 1882, the entire watershed extended from Orlando to Florida Bay comprising the Kissimmee–Lake Okeechobee–Everglades (KLOE) watershed.
The Everglades are a part of a massive watershed that originates near Orlando and drains into Lake Okeechobee, a vast and shallow lake. As the lake exceeds its capacity in the wet season, the water forms a flat and very wide river, about 100 miles (160 km) long and 60 miles (97 km) wide.
Lake Okeechobee is a shallow lake, with an average depth of only 3 metres (9.8 ft), [31] and has a fetch of 54 kilometres (34 mi). [32] In total, the lake has a surface area of 1,730 square kilometres (670 sq mi). [33] The lake is normally mixed, but on days with direct sunlight and limited wind, the lake can exhibit diurnal thermal stratification.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Chart of Florida Bay showing water depths and the shoals and islands that divide it into basins or lakes. Encompassing roughly one-third of Everglades National Park, [1] Florida Bay is variously stated to be 800 square miles (2,100 km 2), [2] or 850 square miles (2,200 km 2), [3] or 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2). [4]
Ingraham Lake is a lake in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It located within the limits of Everglades National Park . [ 1 ] It is the southernmost lake in the continental United States , located in Cape Sable , and is less than 1,000 acres (4 km 2 ) in size.