THE EL PORTAL LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip setting.
El Portal village has 0.42 square miles of land in Miami-Dade County. Its Census reference point is in Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip, within Southern Florida Coastal Plain.
Very low-relief southern Florida terrain includes marsh, swamp, Everglades and palmetto-prairie settings. Small elevation differences can correspond to substantial changes in vegetation and water conditions.
Regional context: Southern Florida Coastal Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
El Portal and Miami-Dade County
El Portal is associated with Miami-Dade County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
El Portal by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within El Portal, or 1.2% of its total area. It is 19.3 percentage points lower than the 20.5% recorded for Miami-Dade County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, El Portal village has 16.7% of the land area of nearby Miami Shores village (2.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

