Las Vegas
General:
Las
Vegas, the capital the US State of the Hoover dam and the Lake Mead recreation
area are situated. A historical museum documents history Nevadas of 12000 v.
chr. Until approximately 1950, and a natural history museum shows over Nevada, is the commercial centre of the
surrounded desert region. Famous it
particularly is as tourist and entertainment centre with luxury hotels and play
casinos. The city is seat of higher educational facilities and a Air Force
base. In their environment animal and
plant world and dinosaurs. The name of the city, which from the Spanish comes
and ' the meadows ' meant, refers to the grass country along of pours
fed desert rivers, which Spanish discoverers in the area found. This area was
the homeland of the Paiute Indians. In the nineties an enormous boom of
construction activity began, in whose consequence one lined new casinos,
vacation hotels up and houses developed. Read Vegas is the fastest increasing metropolis of the United
States. From 1990 to 1992 the population
increased by 13,9% . Las Vegas is into increasing mass point of attraction for
the inhabitants of the Pacific coast, which leave California, in order to
establish itself here. They make
approximately 60% of the newcomers of selected Vegas and contribute
substantially to the development of most different industry activities in the
city. To it among other things the building industry and landscape architecture
belong.
Industry:
Las Vegas calls yourselves as ' world capital of
the maintenance '. The city is seat of a university since 1957. The first white settlers in this area were
Marmons, which establish a colony here from 1855 to 1857. 1846 were established
here by the army of the United States away Baker for the protection of the
travel route to California. The modern
Vegas developed 1905 with builds for the railway. The main development phase of
the city began in the thirties, when about 45 kilometres from the Colorado
removes the Hoover dam was established the building began for 1931, in the same
year, in the Nevada gambling legalised. The first casino opened in Las Vegas 1946. The number of inhabitants of
the city took in and the seventies sixties enormously fast to 1947 took the
money the state in Las Vegas up to one million dollar on the day from
gambling. 1993 three important hotels
were opened, among them the MGM Grand hotel, one to the largest world. The a living who number amounts to about
259,000.
