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is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and, at 33 miles (53
km) long, the largest of the Keys. It is also the northernmost of the
Florida Keys in Monroe County, and the northernmost of the Keys connected
by U.S. Highway 1 (the Overseas Highway). Its earlier Spanish name was
Cayo Largo,[1] meaning Long Key.
Key Largo is connected to the mainland in Miami-Dade County by two routes.
The Overseas Highway, which is U.S. Highway 1, enters Key Largo at Jewfish
Creek near the middle of the island and turns southwest. Card Sound Road
connects to the northern part of Key Largo at Card Sound Bridge and runs
eastward to connect with County Road 905, which runs southwest and joins
U.S. 1 at about mile marker 106. These routes originate at Florida City
on the mainland.
Key Largo is a popular tourist destination and calls itself the "Diving
Capital of the World" because the living coral reef a few miles offshore
attracts thousands of scuba divers and sport-fishing enthusiasts. Key Largo's
proximity to the Everglades also makes it a premier destination for kayakers
and ecotourists. Automotive and highway pioneer and Miami Beach developer
Carl G. Fisher built Key Largo's famous Caribbean Club in 1938 as his last
project.
The island gained fame as the setting for the 1948 Humphrey Bogart-Lauren
Bacall film Key Largo, although it was filmed entirely on a Warner Brothers
sound stage in Hollywood.The island's main village, which had been known
as Rock Harbor after a nearby cove, changed its name to Key Largo after
the film's success.
There are three census-designated places on the island of Key Largo: North
Key Largo, near the Card sound Bridge, Key Largo, eight or nine miles from
the southern end of the island, and Tavernier, at the southern end of the
island. Ocean Reef Club is a private gated community and club at the northern
end of the island. None of Key Largo is an incorporated municipality, so
it is governed at the local level by Monroe County.
Key Largo is situated between Everglades National Park to the north-west
and John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park to the east, the first underwater
park in the United States and the site of the only living coral barrier
reef in the continental United State
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