Why things are getting worse with Curacao
#curacao forms together with #aruba and #bonaire the downwind islands off the coast of Venezuela. By the way, I did not know that Klein Curacao and Klein Bonaire also existed and that are very small uninhabited islands. Unfortunately, things are getting worse with the islands and the #corona also contributes significantly to this.
The status of the islands
Bonaire has been a special municipality since October 2010 (besides the 12 provinces Bonaire is now the 13 you might say). Aruba and Curacao have a separate status within our Kingdom of the Netherlands. They are part of us and are part of us but are actually separate. Aruba was the first to have this status in 1986. They wanted to stand on their own feet first, but the Kingdom did not want that. Aruba had to do with the so-called separate status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Since October 2010, the Netherlands Antilles ceased to exist and that form and Curacao and Sint Maarten (one of the windward islands) were able to obtain the status that Aruba had before. Aruba now has no separate status but in view of the other islands. Bonaire became, together with the windward islands of Saba and Sint Eustatius, special municipalities of the Netherlands. The Netherlands has 12 provinces and the Kingdom of the Netherlands has 15 provinces. Sint Maarten is partly French and belongs to #frankrijk They call it Saint Martin. For this reason, Aruba, Sint Maarten and Curacao are also allowed to participate in World Cup football or Olympic Games as their own country and flag.
Background of Curacao
- Language: Dutch and Papiaments or English (Curacao in Papiaments is Korsou).
- Capital: Willemstad (Willenstad was formerly the capital of the Netherlands Antilles).
- Habitation: about 2900 and 2300 BC, human remains and wall drawings have already been discovered.
- Discovered: In 1499 by the Spaniard Alonso de Ojeda
- Spain: In 1527 the Spaniards officially settled here after the 2000 Caquetio (residents of then) transported to work as slaves in Hisspaniola.
- WIC: The West India Company attacked the island to store their camp and base there in 1634, and they were interested in the salt supply. It also had the best port in the Caribbean at the time.
- Dutch Colony: in the meantime wanted #spanje retake the country from the WIC. Only when the WIC went bankrupt in 1795. The island officially became a Dutch colony.
- British: In 1800 the British wanted the island and attacked it. In 1816 the Dutch got it back from the British.
- 1863: Abolition of slavery by the Dutch government.
- World War II: it was a good basis for supplying fuel to the Allies.
- Economy: consisted of trade, agriculture and fisheries. In 1914, Shell settled on the island because oil had been discovered in Venezuela.
- Political autonomy: the Netherlands Antilles received as of 1954.
- 2010: Separate status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Famous bridge with the boats that open when a boat has to sail into the harbour. Located on the Saint Annaba Bay. The bridge connects Punda to Otrobanda and played a major role in the series of Bassie and Adriaan. When the Baron put a package on that bridge to finally deal with those two. Only Flighty Jiffy was ahead of them. #bassieenadriaan
Residents: There is something striking to see here. Last figures in 2011. Lived there on the island just over 150,000 people. Of these 81,000 were female and 69,000 men.
