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Global warming coupled with an intense El Niño has led to higher sea water temperatures throughout the area, which can cause coral bleaching. "Minor paling" of some corals has been observed by local Coral Bleaching Early Warning Network, [3] a program of Mote Marine Laboratory and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. [4]
The 9-foot (2.7 m) tall statue Christ of the Deep, placed in less than 25 feet (7.6 m) of water in a sand channel on the offshore side of the Dry Rocks reef on August 25, 1965, in what at that time was part of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, was included in the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary.
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 densest and most spectacular reefs, along with the highest water clarity, are found to the seaward of Key Largo (in and beyond John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park) and Elliott Key (the northernmost 'true' Florida Key) where the two long keys help protect the reefs from the effects of water exchange with Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, Card ...
Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State 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.
Water managers are tracking the elevations of Lake Powell and Lake Mead, two of the largest reservoirs in the U.S., as a historic megadrought made worse by climate change grips Western states.
Rodriguez Key is an uninhabited island in the upper Florida Keys. It is located east of Key Largo . The island is covered by mangrove forests, including the species Rhizophora mangle , Avicennia nitida , and Laguncularia racemosa .