Curacao Port
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Curaçao ( / ˈ k ÊŠr É™ s aÊŠ / KUR -É™-sow or / ˈ k jÊŠÉ™r É™ s aÊŠ / KEWR -É™-sow ; Dutch : Curaçao ; Papiamentu : Kòrsou ) is an island country in the southern Caribbean Sea , approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of the Venezuelan coast, that is a constituent country ( Dutch : land ) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . Formally called the Country of Curaçao , ( Dutch : Land Curaçao ; Papiamento : Pais Kòrsou ), it includes the main island and the uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"). It ha
Before the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao was administered as the "Island Territory of Curaçao" (Dutch: Eilandgebied Curaçao , Papiamentu: Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou ), one of five island territories of the former Netherlands Antilles.
According to Edgard Otero, author of "Origins of countries' names", the island was discovered by Spaniards, who left in the island members of their crew who had become ill during the trip. When the ships returned to the island one year later, expecting to find the sick already dead, they found their old crew members healthy and healed. For that reason, the island was baptized as "Isla de la Curación" (Island of the Cure, or Island of Healing). In 1520 the island would figure for the first time in a map - wh
Curacao Port