The Curaçao flag represents the country of Curaçao as well as the island region of the Netherlands Antilles from 1984 until its dissolution in 2010. The flag was hoisted for Curaçao and its affiliates, for whom the Dutch flag had never been used.
The flag has a blue background and has a horizontal yellow stripe just below the midline and two white stars with five feathers in the canton.
The color blue symbolizes the sea and the sky (the lower and upper parts of the blue, respectively), which by a yellow stroke represent the radiant sun that bathes the island.
These two stars represent Curacao and Klein Curacao, with five points on each star symbolizing the five continents from which the people of Curaçao descend.
The horizontal bars have a ratio of 5: 1: 2 (blue: yellow: blue). The diameter of the stars is 1/6 and 9/2 the height of the flag. Also, the smaller center is 1/6 the height of the flag from the left and top edges, and the larger center is 1/3 of the left and top edges. Blue is Pantone 280 and yellow is Pantone 102.
Following the approval of his flag by Aruba (while still part of the Netherlands Antilles), Curaçao received the approval of a flag in 1979. Two thousand plans sent to the Special Counsel.
Ten people shortlisted, and the council decided on November 29, 1982. With some amendments, the flag adopted on July 2, 1984.
History
The first known flag on the island of Curaçao was the three colors horizontal red-white-blue of the Netherlands West Indies.
In 1815, the three Dutch red-white-blue horizontal colors were adopted as the official flag of the Curaçao Islands and are called dependencies. From 1936 the area renamed the Curaçao Territory and the flag remained the same.
In 1954, Curaçao and its affiliates became known as the Netherlands Antilles. The flag consisted of a white square with red and blue stripes, inside which have six five-pointed white stars, each star. Representing the six main islands.
When Aruba left the band in 1986, a white star was removed. In 2010 the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved.
The Curaçao flag was adopted in 1982. This part has a simple blue background with a yellow diagonal stripe and two pentagonal stars in the upper left corner. Each dot on the white stars represents the five continents of the Curaçao people. In 1984 the stars rotated, so they point upwards.
Meaning and colors
The flag is a blue background with a yellow horizontal stripe just below the midline and two white stars with five feathers in the canton.
The blue color symbolizes the sea and the sky (the lower and upper parts of the blue, respectively), which are divided by a yellow stroke and represent the bright sun that bathes the island.
These two stars represent Curacao and Klein Curacao, with five points on each star symbolizing the five continents from which the people of Curaçao descend.
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About Curaçao
Curaçao is a small Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Caribbean region of the Netherlands, about 65 km off the coast of Venezuela. It is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Together with Aruba and Bonaire, it forms the ABC Islands. Collectively, Curaçao, Aruba, and other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often referred to as the Dutch Caribbean.
It was formerly part of the Curaçao Colony and its affiliates from 1815 to 1954 and later from the Netherlands Antilles from 1954 to 2010, as the “Curaçao Island Territory” and is now officially called the Curaçao State.
It includes the main island of Curaçao and the much smaller and more uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao (“Little Curaçao”). Curaçao has a population of 158,665 (estimated January 2019) and an area of 444 square kilometers (171 square miles). Its capital is Willemstad.
History
Curacao inhabited by the Arawak people from the mainland of South America. It was first visited by Europeans in 1499 and settled by the Spaniards and later by the Dutch, who established it as the main trading center of the Dutch West India Company.
In 1515, the Spaniards exiled all the natives to Hispaniola as slaves. Curaçao is home to the oldest Jewish community in the Western Hemisphere, originally formed by Sephardic Jews who emigrated from Portugal in the 1500s.
The island provided a special advantage for the Dutch – one of the best natural harbors in the West Indies. At the southeastern end of the island, a canal, St. Anne’s Bay, runs through the cliffs to a large, deep and practically enclosed bay called Schottegat, the capital of Wilmstad.
Initially, the need for salt to preserve herring led the Dutch to the Caribbean. Between 1660 and 1700, the Dutch West Indies flourished. The slave trade flourished, and the port of Curaçao opened to all countries to receive food and produce from South American farms.
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The island was repeatedly attacked by rival private individuals and suffered during the British-Dutch wars. It has remained in the hands of the Netherlands since 1816.
In 1845 Curaçao was one of six Dutch affiliations in the West Indies that came under collective management. These affiliations reorganized as the Netherlands Antilles in 1954 and gained internal independence.
The head of government is the King of the Netherlands, who is represented by a governor and the head of government is the Prime Minister. The Council of Ministers, chaired by the Prime Minister, forms government policy.
Curaçao is independent in internal affairs, but the Dutch government is responsible for defense, foreign relations and the like.
The judiciary consists of a court of the first instance and a joint tribunal of Aruba, Curacao, Saint Martin and Bonaire, Saint Eustatius, and Saba. Both courts hear civil and criminal cases. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands is the final court of appeal.
Economy
Curaçao has an open economy, with the most important sectors being tourism, international trade, transportation services, oil refining, storage (oil and banker) and international financial services.
Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has leased the island’s oil refinery, which expires in 2019. The center employs 1,000 people and refines oil from Venezuela to the United States and Asia.
Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services company, included in Curaçao. The Isla refinery claimed to be responsible for Curacao’s position in the top five countries in the world for CO2 emissions.
Along with Saint Martin, Curaçao uses the Netherlands Antilles as its currency. Its economy well developed and supports a high standard of living, ranking 46th in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) and 27th in terms of nominal GDP per capita.
According to the World Bank, Curaçao has a high-income economy. Activities in the port of Willemstad (such as the Free Trade Zone) make a significant contribution to the economy.
Efforts attract more foreign investment to achieve the government’s goal of diversifying its economy. This policy, called the “open arms” policy, focuses heavily on IT companies.
Declining foreign demand due to ongoing unrest and political uncertainty in Venezuela has led to declining exports coupled with rising public demand for services and goods, which has led to a recession since 2016. Other aspects of the economy have shrunk.
Culture
Despite the island’s relatively small population, the diversity of languages and cultural influences on Curaçao has created a significant literary tradition, primarily in the Dutch and Papyamanto.
The oral traditions of the Arawak indigenous people destroyed. The slaves of West Africa brought the stories of Annecy and thus formed the basis of Papianto literature. Also, the first published work in Papyamento was a poem by Joseph Sickman Corson entitled Atari, published in La Cruz in 1905.
Throughout Curaçao literature, narrative techniques and metaphors known as magical realism predominate. Curaçao novelists and poets have contributed to Caribbean and Dutch literature.
The most famous are Cola Debrot, Frank Martinus Arion, Pierre LaFerre, Ellis Giuliana, Guillermo Rosario, Boiley van Livon and Brigadier Maroun.
Geography
Curacao, as well as the other islands of ABC, Trinidad and Tobago, are located on the South American continental shelf. It is a thin island with a generally hilly topography.
The highest point of Christofelberg Mountain is 372 meters (1,220 feet) in the northwest.
The bays, entrances and hot springs of the coastline use a local source of minerals, heat or seawater in hydrotherapy and mesotherapy, making the island one of the region’s balneoclimatic zones.
Located on the southeast coast, the small and flat island of Klein Curaçao.
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