Bits And Facts

Curacao (along with neighboring islands Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, St. Maarten, and St. Eustatius) is a part of the Netherlands Antilles, an autonomous division of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

While the official language is Dutch, four different languages are spoken by almost everyone on the island... Dutch, English, Spanish, and Papiamentu (a unique blend of Dutch, Spanish, and Carib).

The population of 135,000+ people is composed of 55 separate nationalities.

All tap water on the island is desalinated from the sea.

Mosquito repellent is frequently sold out for weeks at a time during the rainy season.

Willemstad is the capital of Curacao, its only city, and the busiest shipping port in the western hemisphere.