Today, 206 years ago, on February 22, 1819 (Calendar 28 January 1819), Spain ceded Florida to the United States. Florida, with an area of 58,664 square miles (151,939 square kilometers), the capital of Tarahasi. Located close to the geographical center of the western hemisphere and the population center of the western hemisphere, its location not only controls the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, but more importantly it is located in the strategic and historical site between South America and Mediterranean Europe. Florida played a competition of European power in an attempt to control a major role in the New Continent, in 1565, on the northeastern coast of the state discovered St. Augustine, it was the oldest European colony, and later became the first border of the United States. In 1810, the United States