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Miami is a coastal city in South Florida and the second-most populous city in Florida with 442,241 residents at the 2020 census, serving as the county seat of Miami-Dade County and anchoring a metropolitan area of 6.39 million people that ranks as the eighth-largest in the United States. The city boasts the third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed 491 feet, and functions as a major international center for finance, commerce, culture, and trade with a 2023 metropolitan GDP of $533.674 billion. Miami was named after the Miami River, derived from Mayaimi, the historic name of Lake Okeechobee, and was uniquely founded by Julia Tuttle, a wealthy citrus grower and Cleveland native, in the late 19th century after the Great Freeze of 1894-1895 destroyed crops elsewhere in Florida. With a 70.2 percent Hispanic and Latino population, Miami has earned the nickname "Gateway to Latin America" and "Capital of Latin America," and hosts PortMiami, the world's busiest cruise port, along with Jackson Memorial Hospital, the nation's largest hospital with 1,547 beds. The Miami metropolitan area is the second-most visited in the United States after New York City, attracting over four million visitors in 2022, and ranked as the third-richest city globally in a 2018 UBS study of 77 world cities. Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, with a 2020 population of 223,109, making it the sixth-largest city in Florida and the second-largest in Miami-Dade County within the Miami metropolitan area. Founded in 1925 by pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss and Missouri cattleman James H. Bright on a prairie between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades, the city's name derives from Muskogee or Seminole origins meaning "pretty prairie" or "upland prairie." Hialeah is notable for its 94% Hispanic population in 2020 - the second-highest in the contiguous United States - and 84.1% Cuban and Cuban-American residents, the highest proportion of any U.S. city, with 89.5% of residents speaking Spanish at home as of 2023. The historic Hialeah Park Race Track, a 220-acre Mediterranean-style thoroughbred racing facility opened in 1925 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is both an Audubon Bird Sanctuary and has attracted world-renowned visitors including the Kennedy family, Winston Churchill, and Amelia Earhart. The city is served by Miami Metrorail at three stations - Okeechobee, Hialeah, and Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer - providing commuter access to Downtown Miami, Miami International Airport, and West Palm Beach. Marathon is a city in the middle of the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, with a 2020 population of 9,689, up from 8,297 in 2010, and was incorporated in 1999. The city's name originated from the Florida East Coast Railroad in the late 19th century, either from workers' complaints about the relentless construction pace or from playwright Witter Bynner's Byron-inspired suggestion referencing Marathon and the sea. Located 50 miles northeast of Key West and 54 miles southwest of Key Largo via U.S. Route 1, Marathon occupies multiple keys including Boot Key, Vaca Key, and Knight's Key, spanning from the Seven Mile Bridge (Mile Marker 47) to Tom's Harbor Bridge (Mile Marker 61). The city experienced significant damage from Hurricane Irma's September 10, 2017 landfall and received emergency relief supplies from Air National Guard C-130 transport planes starting September 11. Marathon has a tropical savanna climate with no record of snow or frost and two distinct seasons: hot and wet from May through October, and warm and dry from November through April.