Miami-Dade County, United States
Opa-locka
Miami-Dade County, United States
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Opa-locka is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, founded in 1926 by American aviator and industrialist Glenn Curtiss. Inspired by the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, Curtiss envisioned the city as a Moorish Revival fantasy, giving it one of the largest collections of Moorish Revival architecture in the Western Hemisphere. The streetscape reinforces this Arabian Nights theme through names like Sharazad Boulevard, Sinbad Avenue, Ali Baba Avenue, and Sultan Avenue. Spanning roughly 4.2 square miles as part of the Miami metropolitan area, Opa-locka's name derives from the Seminole term Opa-tisha-wocka-locka, meaning "wooded hummock" or "a big island covered with many trees and swamps."
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