Willemstad

Willemstad

Willemstad , city (1992 pop. 24,235), Curaçao , capital of the Netherlands Antilles . The city is the commercial and industrial center of the Netherlands Antilles as well as a free port and tourist center. It is important as a transshipment point and refining center for petroleum sent across the Gulf of Venezuela from Maracaibo ; however, the petroleum demand declined in the mid-1980s. Willemstad has a distinctive Dutch character with streets lined by narrow, gabled houses.

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Willemstadt

Willemstadt Capital of Netherlands Antilles, on Curaçao Island, West Indies. Willemstadt is a free port, exporting oil from Venezuela and coffee. Oil refining and tourism are the major industries, although it also has the largest dry dock in the Americas. Pop. (1995) 119,000.

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Willemstad

Willemstad, Curaçao/Netherlands Antilles ‘William's Town’ after William I the Silent (1533–84), Dutch Stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1572–84).

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