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The Everglades are wetlands in southern Florida. The measure about 100 miles by 60 miles, and range from Lake Okeechobee south, almost to the tip of Florida. They run from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. They include a variety of ecosystems from grassy marshes to cypress swamps and mangrove forests. They were long regarded as impenetrable by human beings, and remained largely unexplored.

Their original name in English was River Glades. This was changed to Everglades by cartographers in the 1820's.

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