Islamorada, "Village of Islands" is an incorporated village in Monroe County, Florida, on the islands of Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plantation Key in the Florida Keys.
The village was incorporated on November 4, 1997. Prior to this date, Islamorada was only considered to be on the island of Upper Matecumbe Key.
As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 6,846. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 7,033.blank">http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2004-04-12.xls.
The name "Islamorada", meaning "purple island", comes from early Spanish explorers in the area. It's American pronounciation is aisle-a-more-AH-dah.
Islamorada was hit almost directly by the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, causing 423 deaths.
Islamorada is also home to the _Florida National High Adventure Sea Base of the Boy Scouts of America.
According to the grand jury indictment of a group of paramilitary Christians of West Indian origin,http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/06/23/cts.batiste.indict.pdf, in January 2006 Islamadora was used as a meeting site by four of the group with an undercover FBI agent they believed to be an al-Qaeda representative.
