Ascencion
Pueblo de la Madre de Dios de Ascención. That is the original name of the bario on Bándabou that we now know as Ascencion. In old Dutch writings the…
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Barios
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Barios
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101 neighbourhoods
Baraltwijk
Baraltwijk is a small bario at the end of the Roodeweg. It lies east of Mundo Nobo, opposite the petrol station and the fire station there.
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Barber
Barber – from 1827 the second Catholic parish of Curaçao – came only 80 years after the first church, the Santa Ana in Otrobanda, was built. This…
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Blauw
Blauw, formerly a plantation of 226 hectares, lies between the former plantations Klein Piscadera, Groot Piscadera and Klein Sint Michiel. Because it…
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Bloemhof
"Porta di Heru" (Iron Gate) was the striking name for the country house Bloemhof at the beginning of the Santa Rosaweg in the Ruiterkwartier. This…
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Bloempot
Bloempot is a small country house, right next to Zuikertuintje and the Bloempot shopping centre, which was built on the grounds of this country…
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Bottelier
Bottelier was a small plantation of 60 hectares dating from 1757. It lies between Dominguito and Zuurzak and was called Bòtri in popular speech. It…
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Brakkeput
What we know today as Montaña was still called "Plantage Vaerscheput", or Varse Put, around 1855, in the sense of "fresh" or sweet (drinking) water…
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Brievengat and surroundings (part 1)
The Brievengat zone includes the barios Brievengat and Schelpwijk and the areas Francisco and Industriepark Brievengat.
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Brievengat and surroundings (part 2)
The original Brievengat consisted only of the plantation house with some farmland around it. The present gate to the plantation house shows the size…
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Cabo Berde
The former plantations Cabo Verde, or Kobèrdè, Seru Fortuna and Stenen Koraal, or Kurá (di) Piedra, together once formed the plantation De Zeegening…
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Cas Abou
Cas Abou is not only one of the oldest but also one of the smallest and one of the most frequently sold plantations on Curaçao. The salt pans too are…
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Cemeteries on the Roodeweg
The Roodeweg ("Red Road") was formerly a little knoek street consisting of red rocky ground, discoloured by iron compounds that occur frequently in…
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Cerito
On the small estate Cerito ("little hill"), also called De Vrede (1858), there was formerly some farming and small-scale livestock keeping, but…
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Chèr Asil
Chèr Asil, originally Chère Asile, in popular speech Sarasil, means "beloved place of refuge". According to the author Junnes Sint Jago, the original…
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Chobolobo
Chobolobo was earlier known as De (Grote) Zoutpan (The (Great) Salt Pan), Groote Pan, Groot Salienja, Goed Heenkomen or De Uitzicht. Although…
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Damacor
Through the asphalting of roads and overpopulation in the city and Scharloo, the "move to the outside" got under way around 1940, and well-to-do…
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Daniël & surroundings
The plantation Daniël and surroundings in Bándabou: Grote and Kleine Berg with the old police post, Harmonie, the 1916 radio receiving station and…
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Dokterstuin
Dokterstuin is a former plantation west of the Weg naar Westpunt and south of Barber.
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Fontein
The former plantation Fontein lies in the Y-junction formed by the Weg naar Westpunt and Kaminda Monica Kapel-Matheeuw (formerly called the Weg naar…
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Francia
Francia, of which the present little plantation house is not the original, was formerly called a lusttuintje (pleasure garden): it was more a country…
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Gaito
This plantation lies south of Landhuis Groot Kwartier and was traditionally known as an indigenous dwelling place, where many shell heaps were found…
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Gasparito
On the border between Kas Chikitu and Veeris, with a direct view of the Sambil shopping centre, lies a built-up hill with the remarkable name "Seru…
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Gato
Striking in Gato are the Piedra di Butishi (pitcher stones), or Piedra di Indjan (Indian stones), so called because Indians are said to have buried…
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Groot Davelaar
The most beautiful hofje (garden estate) in the so-called Ruiterkwartier* once lay between Groot Davelaar and the more easterly plantation…
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Groot Kwartier
Groot Kwartier is a former kunuku, north-east of the Schottegat. Here and at Santa Barbara the first Spanish villages on Curaçao were established.
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Habaai
The former plantation Habaai, alias Welgelegen, lies on the edge of the north-western shore of the Schottegat, the area that was still known into the…
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Hato
Hato is unique as one of only two plantations on Curaçao — the other is San Pedro — where running water was and is always present. With a total of 9…
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Jan Doret
Jan Doret is a former kunuku, situated between Groot Piscadera and Groot Sint Michiel. The origin of the name is as yet unclear: according to the…
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Jeremi
In the valley of Jeremi stands the Tree of Life: an impressive Palu di Sia Kòrá (Brazil-wood tree) that looks down from a dam on the extensive…
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