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The Spanish settled on the island in 1527 and governed it from one of the Spanish-Venezuelan cities. The Spanish imported many non-native animals and plants to Curaçao. Horses, sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle were introduced from Europe or other Spanish colonies. Various non-native trees and plants were also planted by the Spaniards.
Spaanse Water is a town on the island of Curaçao. It contains the tourist resort Nieuwpoort , [ 4 ] the village of Santa Barbara , [ 1 ] and the Tafelberg . [ 5 ] Spaanse Water is a natural harbour and lagoon located to the east of Willemstad .
The name "Curaçao" may originate from the indigenous autonym of its people; this idea is supported by early Spanish accounts referring to the inhabitants as Indios Curaçaos. Curaçao's history begins with the Arawak and Caquetio Amerindians; the island becoming a Spanish colony after Alonso de Ojeda's 1499 expedition.
Water [41] 20th century: Water sources, supply, and use 40: Elis Juliana and Paul Brenneker [42] 20th century: Pioneers of Curaçaoan cultural heritage 41: Education on Curaçao [43] 19th and 20th century: Emergence, access and structure 42: The plural society [44] from 1915: Economy, labor and diversity 43: Getting along with nature [45] from 1499
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.
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The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies (Dutch: Kolonie Curaçao en onderhorigheden; Papiamento: Kolonia di Kòrsou i dependensianan) was a Dutch colony in the Caribbean Sea from 1634 until 1828 and from 1845 until 1954.
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