El Portal is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The proclaim is derived from the Spanish term for “the gate”, after two wooden gates that in the same way as stood as a gateway to the village. El Portal was originally annexed into the city of Miami in 1925. With the start of the Great Depression, Miami gave in the works its jurisdiction, and El Portal was incorporated as its own village in 1937. As of the 2020 census, the population of El Portal was 1,986, down from 2,325 in 2010.

El Portal is a small, diverse enclave amongst Miami Shores and Miami. It was incorporated upon December 6, 1937. The enclave was originally the capital of the Tequesta tribal area, and was visited by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in the 1560s. Three small subdivisions (now neighborhoods)—Sherwood Forest, El Jardin (Spanish for “The Garden”), and El Portal—merged into the Village of El Portal. Its borders improve 91st Street on the north, the Little River Canal upon the south, Northeast Fifth Avenue upon the east and Northwest Fifth Avenue on the west.

The village’s pronounce is a Spanish term meaning “the gate,” referring to two huge wooden gates upon Northeast Second Avenue that were taken all along in the 1940s.

The village was designated as a bird sanctuary by the give access for more than 50 years, which means that the flora and fauna and trees cannot be harmed in any way. A flora and fauna trail winds its artifice through the village. El Portal furthermore boasts contacts to prehistoric Indian spirit at the Little River Mound, a four-foot-high, innocuous grassy knoll that is actually an ancient burial ground. The Little River Mound, located in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood, is the first archaeological site to be publicly endorsed and preserved in Miami-Dade County.