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Key Largo

American  
[lahr-goh] / ˈlɑr goʊ /

noun

  1. one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.


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Perez was taken into ICE custody following a raid in Key Largo on June 5, per an agency press release.

From Salon

Shannon, who has flown in from Key Largo, Fla., with his family, is no stranger to the show’s tapings; this is his 16th time attending.

From Los Angeles Times

As a result, the Key Largo tree cactus is now locally extinct from both the Florida Keys and the United States as a whole, though other related cacti are indigenous to Cuba and the Bahamas.

From Salon

Though this extinction is ominous for other flora and fauna in ecologically precarious regions, Lange also notes that the Key Largo tree cactus has intrinsic value of its own.

From Salon

From an initial population of more than 150 stems in the Florida Keys, the once-thriving Key Largo tree cacti began dwindling due to salt water intrusion, soil depletion, intensified hurricanes and unusually high tides, all of which are either caused or exacerbated by global warming.

From Salon