Flamingo is a small settlement on the coast at the eastern end of the only road running through the Everglades National Park. It is the only settlement within the park, and consists of little more than the Flamingo Lodge hotel, a cafe, a chandler and a few houses. There is also a seasonal caravan park.
The settlement is so called because the coast at this point provides the only place in the USA where Caribbean Flamingo can be seen on migration. This large bird was split as a separate species in 2002, having previously been considered a race of Greater Flamingo. The situation is complicated by the regular presence on the mudflats of escaped birds from the nearby racecourse.
Flamingo provides the only road access to the sea in the Everglades National Park. A track called the Snake Bight Trail (not "bite") provides an alternative pedestrian access to the sea to the east of Flamingo, but its two-mile length is notorious for the number and ferocity of the mosquitos.
Flamingo, Florida began as a small coastal settlement on the eastern end of Cape Sable on the southern tip of the Florida peninsula, facing Florida Bay.
Flamingos were last seen in large numbers in the area in 1902.
A fish house was built in Flamingo in 1908, and fishing became the primary occupation of the town.
The name, flamingo, appears to be a combination of the Latin words flaminca, for the wife of a flamen, a priest of Jupiter, and flamma, for the fire of passion and flame of love.
It was in Flamingo, Florida in Monroe County #38, at 25 N., for Sovereignty, and 80 W., for strength.
Florida has been associated with the Palestinians at Gaza, and the flamingo is one of the symbols of the wives of the priests of Satan.
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