CORAL GABLES, a residential city on the east coast of Florida, U.S.A., adjoining Miami (q.v.), and served by the Florida East Coast railway. It has an area of about 16sq.m., laid out in advance on a comprehensive plan, and developed in Spanish and Moorish architecture, with 6m. of Venetian water-ways. The city was created in a few years by immense investment of capital and modern engineering. In 1925 the population (State census) was 9o1; in 193o it was 5,697 by the Federal census. The assessed valuation of property in 1927 was $9o,810,35o. It has a commission-manager form of government.