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The Spanish Called Curaçao a Useless Island, Then It Became a Cattle Farm
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I learned something today: the Spanish once called Curaçao "the useless island" because neither the crops nor the precious metal came in. Yet they turned it into a cattle ranch, and it was only after the Dutch arrived in 1634 that they deported most of the natives to the mainland. A story of disappointment Curaçao is now part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located about 65 kilometers north of Venezuela. Its original inhabitants were the Araw…
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