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Aruba
Morgan B. Holmond
Traditions
Carnaval
Dia Di San Juan
St. John's Day
Dande
Aruban New
Year's celebration
Food
Pastechi
Keshi Yena
Stoba
Sopa di Pompuna
Cool Island Soup
Culture
National Anthem: Aruba Dushi Tera
(Aruba, Dear Country)
Religion: Roman Catholic
Official Language:
- Papiamento
- Spanish, West African Language, Portuguese, and Dutch
- Dutch
- Spanish
- English
Thank you!
Tourist Attractions
Alto Vista Chapel
Natural Pool
Other Tourist Attractions
Island Tours
Underwater Tours
Bar Hopping
Antilla Wreck
Economic
Economy has been dominated by five main industries:
- Tourism
- Petroleum Refinery
- Phosphate Mining
- Aloe Export
- Gold Mining
Climate
Why I chose Aruba?
Average Temperature: 82 degrees
Rainfall: less than 20 in a year
Located outside the hurricane belt and there is constant cooling influence of the trade winds
I chose Aruba because:
- it's one of the most beautiful islands of the Caribbean
- culture
- languages is amazing
- ancestors from here
My Culture
My Dad's Side
My Mom's Side
ARUBAN DESCENDANTS
GULLAH
Our last name is mostly common in Aruba and some in The Netherlands in Europe, were it originally came from
the descendants of enslaved Africans who lived in the Lowcountry regions of Georgia and South Carolina, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands
Geography
- Blue: the sea that surrounds the island
- Yellow: the color of the abundance; source of economic prosperity and industries of gold, aloe, tourism, and oil refinery
- Red: the blood shed by the Arubans, Indian inhabitants during the French Pass War
- White: white beaches
- Star: the island
Captial: Oranjestad
Aruba is a part of the ABC Island:
- Aruba
- Bonaire
- Curaçao
Aruba is a 20 mile long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea and is 16 miles from the coast of Venezuela. Sometimes you can see the mainland of Venezuela from the south-eastern coast