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Aerial view of the coast of Curaçao Enlargeable, detailed map of Curaçao Green Iguana from Curaçao. Curaçao, as well as the rest of the ABC islands and Trinidad and Tobago, lies on the continental shelf of South America. It is a thin island with a generally hilly topography; the highest point is Christoffelberg 372 m (1,220 ft) in the ...
Original file (1,500 × 1,000 pixels, file size: 708 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) ... Beeld Map of Curacao III van Avantia Damberg, Blue Bay beeldentuin, Curaçao.
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.
Curaçao includes the main island of Curaçao and the much smaller, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"). Curaçao has a population of 158,665 (January 2019 es
One explanation for the island's name is that Curaçao was the autonym by which its indigenous peoples identified themselves. [18] Early Spanish accounts support this theory, referring to the indigenous peoples as Indios Curaçaos. [19] From 1525, the island was featured on Spanish maps as Curaçote, Curasaote, Curasaore, and even Curacaute. [20]
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