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Originally
discovered in 1499 by Spanish explorers Alonso
de Ojeda and Americo Vespucci.
It was first called Isla de Brazil. The native
Caiquetio and Arawak that inhabited this island
were described as living in the Stone Age, with
mud huts. The Spanish colonized the island in
1515, enslaving the natives to work in the copper
mines of Hispaniola.
The Dutch acquired Curacao from the Portuguese
in 1634, because the needed a naval base to fight
against the Spanish. Bonaire and neighboring Aruba
fell to the Dutch in 1636 and became a Dutch colony.
In 1954, Bonaire and the other islands of the
Netherlands Antilles became autonomous from Holland.
In 1986, Bonaire became a territory of the Kingdom
of Netherlands, which is divided into three territories:
Holland, Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curacao,
Saba, St Eustatius, and St Maarten), and Aruba.
This leaves the development of tourism in the
hands of the Antilles and the defense and foreign
affairs to the Kingdom. |
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