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South Beach

Miami Beach · United States

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The short version, from the cited sources

South Beach is the Atlantic front of Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District, where pastel 1930s hotels, colored lifeguard towers and Ocean Drive's neon face a wide, engineered strand of imported sand. It is as much a cultural district as a beach: fashion shoots, nightlife and people-watching share the shore with warm, swimmable Atlantic water. The lifeguard stands themselves, rebuilt as individual works of design, have become the beach's icon.

Country
United States (US)
Region
North America
Sand
Golden
Water
Warm atlantic water
Administrative area
Florida
Timezone
America/New_York
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2015-06-11

Names in the record

South Beach

No alternate names were supplied by the source.

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  • Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds

Source position

25.78022, -80.12819

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Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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