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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. There are several restaurants at the beach and golf course.
[citation needed] Curaçao was a Caribbean leader in cruise ship tourism growth, with 610,186 cruise passengers in 2013, a 41.4% increase over the previous year. [90] Hato International Airport received 1,772,501 passengers in 2013 and announced capital investments totaling US$48 million aimed at transforming the airport into a regional hub by ...
Willemstad (/ ˈ w ɪ l ə m s t ɑː t, ˈ v ɪ l-/ WIL-əm-staht, VIL-, Dutch: [ˈʋɪləmstɑt] ⓘ, Papiamento: [wiləmˈstad]; lit. ' William Town ') is the capital and largest city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Just to the southeast of the Caribbean island of Curaçao is the small ghostly island of Klein Curaçao, which is Dutch for "Little Curaçao" Attempts to settle this island through the centuries ...
Klein Curaçao (English: Little Curaçao) is a 1.7-square-kilometre (170 ha; 0.66 sq mi) uninhabited island belonging to, and lying 10 km south-east of, Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Dutch Caribbean.
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 ...
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. The beach is accessible to the public paying an entrance fee of $15 per car. A landmark on the beach is Tafelberg.
Santa Rosa is a town on the island of Curaçao in the former Netherlands Antilles.It is to the east of the capital, Willemstad, located inland from the east coast, to the south of Santa Catarina, and is connected to the eastern coastline via a canal.