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Big Bend Power Station. / 27.79583°N 82.40361°W / 27.79583; -82.40361. Big Bend Power Station is a major coal-fired power plant, located across Tampa Bay from Tampa, Florida, United States, on nearly 1,500 acres (6 km 2) in southwestern Hillsborough County, close to Apollo Beach. It is owned and operated by TECO Energy.
56. 4-Unit Coal, 3-Unit Combustion Turbine Peaking. [42] Brandy Branch Generating Station. 710. 170 MW simple-cycle natural gas combustion turbine, 2-on-1 combined cycle unit consisting of two 170 MW natural gas combustion turbines and 200 MW steam turbine-electric generator. [43] C.D. McIntosh Power Plant.
The Manatee River is a 36-mile-long (58 km) [1] river in Manatee County, Florida. [2] The river forms in the northeastern corner of Manatee County and flows into the Gulf of Mexico at the southern edge of Tampa Bay . Wildlife in and around the river includes alligators, herons, manatees, dolphins, and fish such as bass, bluegill, catfish, and gar.
July 6, 2024 at 11:01 AM. A critter in a South Florida lake, manmade or otherwise, is not unusual. After all, we’re surrounded by water. Still, the sight of a manatee in a manmade lake in the ...
March 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM. Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock. A Redditor shared an amazing video that he filmed somewhere in Florida where a very friendly manatee decided to hitch a ride on his ...
Manatee conservation. This individual inspects a kayak situation. Manatees are large marine mammals that inhabit slow rivers, canals, saltwater bays, estuaries, and coastal areas. They are a migratory species, inhabiting the Florida waters during the winter and moving as far north as Virginia and into the Chesapeake Bay, sometimes seen as far ...
Caribbean Manatee Conservation Center. / 18.35056°N 66.18167°W / 18.35056; -66.18167. The Caribbean Manatee Conservation Center is a research, education, rescue, and rehabilitation partnership established in 2009 in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico in order to help endangered manatees survive from extinction.
Manatees (/ ˈ m æ n ə t iː z /, family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West ...