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Key Largo is 106 miles from Miami and is located at Mile Marker 118-90 and has a population of 11,886. It is the first island you come to in the Florida Keys. It was in the early 1500s that the Spanish explorers originally landed on the first of a series of islands extending south from the Florida mainland. They named it “Cayo Largo” or Long Key, because of the islands size. Through the centuries, pirates, buccaneers and smugglers roamed the island and its coastal waters leaving behind many a shipwreck and, some say, the spirit of independence that is so readily evident in todays inhabitants. Known as the “Dive Capital of the World”, in Key Largo you will find John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the nation’s first undersea preserve, which is part of the National Marine Sanctuary Program. You need only to dive 25 feet to marvel at the famed statue of Christ of the Abyss.
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