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2. Blue Bay, Curaçao - Wikipedia

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   Blue Bay (Dutch: Blauwbaai) is a beach on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, located close to the fishermen's village of Sint-Michiel to the north-west of Willemstad.The beach is named after a plantation "Blaauw" that was located nearby.

3. Santa Barbara Beach, Curaçao - Wikipedia

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   Santa Barbara Beach is a private beach on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, located at the southeast of island.. The terrain was the property of a mining company, close by an ancient phosphate mine that can still be found.

4. Dreams Curaçao Resort - Wikipedia

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   The main hotel complex is located on the shores of Piscadera Bay, but the resort stretches along the Caribbean Sea around the southern coast of the island. Recreational facilities include two private beaches (one at the Bay and the other adjacent to the Curaçao Marriott Beach Resort), three swimming pools, a dive school, two tennis courts, a miniature golf course, a Health Club, a spa and ...

5. ABC islands (Leeward Antilles) - Wikipedia

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   The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815.

6. History of Curaçao - Wikipedia

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   Other former slaves had nowhere to go and remained working for the plantation owner in the tenant farmer system. [9] This was an instituted order in which the former slave leased land from his former master. In exchange the tenant promised to give up most of his harvest to the former slave master.

7. Maduro & Curiel's Bank - Wikipedia

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   Beginning in 1893, the absence of coins and banknotes in Curaçao led S.E.L. Maduro & Sons to issue money coupons until the introduction of the 1901 Coinage Act. For a long time this 'Maduro Money' was accepted as payment on the ABC islands. [3]

8. Curaçao - Wikipedia

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   Curaçao, [a] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela.

9. Economy of Curaçao - Wikipedia

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   Early in its history, Curaçao's economy was centered on salt mining from saline-rich ponds located in the eastern part of the island. Up until that time, dating back to the 16th century, settlers (first Spanish & later Dutch & Sephardic Portuguese Jews) made numerous, failed attempts at creating an agricultural industry.