Place:Aventura, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States

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NameAventura
TypeCity
Coordinates25.964°N 80.136°W
Located inMiami-Dade, Florida, United States
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Aventura is a planned, suburban city in northeastern Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, 17 miles north of the city of Miami and part of the Miami metropolitan area. The city is especially well-known for Aventura Mall, the 5th largest mall in the United States by total square feet of retail space and the largest mall in Florida.

The city name is from the Spanish word for "adventure", and was named "Aventura" after the developers of the original group of condominiums in the area, Eddie Lewis and Don Soffer, remarked "What an adventure this is going to be."

According to the U.S. Census estimates of 2010, the city had a population of 35,762.

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