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Key Largo (Spanish: Cayo Largo) is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the keys, at 33 miles (53 km) long. It is one of the northernmost of the Florida Keys in Monroe County , and the northernmost of the keys connected by U.S. Highway 1 (the Overseas Highway ).
Key Largo is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located on the island of Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys. The population was 12,447 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 10,433 in 2010 . [ 5 ]
Monroe County is the southernmost county of the state of Florida. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 82,874. [2] Its county seat is Key West. [3] Monroe County includes the islands of the Florida Keys and comprises the Key West-Key Largo Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Tavernier is located at (25.015156, -80.513678 It occupies the southwesternmost 3 miles (5 km) of Key Largo, the largest of the Florida Keys.Tavernier is bordered to the northeast by the community of Key Largo and to the southwest, across Tavernier Creek, by the village of Islamorada on Plantation Key.
The "towns" of Key Largo, North Key Largo and Tavernier, all on the island of Key Largo, are not incorporated.): Key Largo (MM 91–107) Tavernier Key; Rodriguez Key; All keys north of Broad Creek are in Biscayne National Park and Miami-Dade County. The following are "true" Florida Keys (exposed ancient coral reefs): Old Rhodes Key; Totten Key ...
The migrants came ashore in Key Largo shortly before 2 a.m., according to Monroe County Sheriff’s Office calls-for-service logs. The Florida Highway Patrol, which said in a statement that its ...
When the city council's complaints went unanswered by the U.S. federal government and attempts to get an injunction against the roadblock failed in court, as a form of protest Mayor Dennis Wardlow and the council declared Key West's independence on April 23, 1982. In the eyes of the council, since the U.S. federal government had set up the ...
The Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary covered an area of 103 square miles (78 sq nmi; 270 km 2) adjacent to and east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park [2] and was created to protect a portion of a coral barrier reef which lay outside the waters of that park.