The island of Bonaire is located in the southern Caribbean and is the easternmost of the islands called ABC, i.e. the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. The island is located about 90 kilometers north of the coast of Venezuela. While it is about 40 km from the neighboring island of Curaçao. In the past […]
Category: Dutch Caribbean – Netherlands Antilles
An alternative Caribbean island is the small island of Sint Eustatius called Statia for short. Populated by about 3,000 people, the island is out of the tourist flows that invest a large part of the Caribbean islands. The island was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage. A RICH HISTORY OF TRADE […]
The island of Bonaire has a dry tropical semi-arid hot climate, with constant temperatures throughout the year and with minimal variations between the maximum temperatures and the minimum seasonal temperatures. Even between day and night temperatures vary little. Bonaire receives about 450 mm of rain per year, the few rains are concentrated mainly in the […]
The island of Bonaire is today a special municipality in the Dutch Caribbean (Caribisch Nederland) and is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Until 2010, the island was part of the Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen). Bonaire is located north of the coast of Venezuela, east of the island of Curaçao. The 288 km² island […]
The island of Curaçao has a hot-dry tropical semi-arid climate, characterized by low rainfall, stable temperatures and good weather during most of the year. The climate of the island is typical of tropical savannas with a short wet season and a long dry season. Curaçao has a long dry season in the months from January […]
The island of Curaçao is today a constituent nation of the kingdom of the Netherlands. Until 2010, the island was part of the Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen), of which Curaçao is the largest and most populous island (444 sq km). Curaçao is located north of the coast of Venezuela, between the islands of Aruba and […]
The island of Saint Martin / Sint Maarten has an important international airport which has made it one of the most popular destinations in the Caribbean. The airport is located in the south-western part of the island, in the Dutch part of Saint Martin / Sint Maarten. A flight to this island is the most […]
The island of Aruba is connected by flights to the rest of the world thanks to an important international airport, the Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA). This airport, which is the main access point that tourists use to get to Aruba, is located along the southwestern coast of the island, just southeast of the capital […]
The island of Saint Martin is an island of volcanic nature which is located in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles. Saint Martin has a unique identity: its territory since the 17th century is divided between France and the Netherlands. In its 90 sq km the island presents a unique variety of races, languages, […]
The island of Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten has a tropical warm and humid climate, with temperatures undergo only slight variations throughout the year, and which are moderated by constant trade winds blowing from the east and northeast. The temperatures of Saint-Martin remain stable throughout the year. During the year, temperatures usually range between 24 ° C and […]
The island of Saint Martin – Sint Maarten (87 sq km) has the particularity of being divided between France and the Netherlands, only the northern part belongs to France for a total of 53 sq km, while the southern part is part of the Netherlands (34 sq km). The French part of the island of […]
CLIMATE OF CURAÇAO AND BONAIRE The two southern and largest islands of the Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao and Bonaire have a hot-dry and sunny tropical climate all year round, with average temperatures of 27 ° C, mitigated by the constant blowing of the north-east trade winds. The rainy season starts in October and ends in December. […]
The Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen) are part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and are made up of two groups of islands almost 1,000 km apart. The first group, the southern one, is made up of the islands of Curaçao, Klein Curaçao, Bonaire and Klein Bonaire. These islands are located just off the […]
Aruba is an island characterized by a dry tropical climate with an average annual temperature of 27 ° C, and with little variation throughout the year, temperatures are also mitigated by the constant blowing of trade winds. January and February are the coldest months with average temperatures ranging between 24 ° C and 29 ° C. […]
Aruba is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located just north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná. This is the westernmost island of the Lesser Antilles. The island, which in the past was part of the Netherlands Antilles, is now a dependency of the Netherlands with wide autonomy. The capital is the town of Oranjestad […]