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.
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