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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.
Key Largo is located at (25.106637, -80.429917 It shares the island of Key Largo with Tavernier to the southwest and North Key Largo to the northeast. U.S. Route 1, the Overseas Highway, runs the length of the community, leading north 57 miles (92 km) to Miami and southwest 97 miles (156 km) to Key West.
Caribbean Club on Key Largo, northernmost of the Florida Keys, was developed and built by auto parts and real estate promoter Carl Graham Fisher in 1938.. Carl Fisher, considered a genius as a promoter, had conceived the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, in 1913.
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 ).
The state-sanctioned Everglades National Park Commission proposed a national park for the Everglades, including the reefs off Key Largo. Opposition from property owners, outdoorsmen, and Monroe County Commissioners stopped the plan. When Everglades National Park was created in 1947, the boundaries did not include Key Largo or any of the reefs. [3]
Ocean Reef Club Airport (IATA: OCA, FAA LID: 07FA) is a private-use airport located 19 miles (31 km) northeast of the central business district of the island of Key Largo in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The airport is privately owned. [1]
The Key Largo Woodrat is found only in the northern part of its namesake island and is a focus of management activities in Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge. About 70 miles (110 km) west of Key West is Dry Tortugas National Park. The waters surrounding the Keys are part of a protected area known as the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
North Key Largo is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,431 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 1,244 in 2010 . It includes two private clubs, the Ocean Reef Club and the Key Largo Anglers Club, and is reached from the mainland via the Card Sound Bridge .