Groot Piscadera
Grőot Piscadera is a neighbourhood of Willemstad, Curaçao, a Lesser Antilles island in the Dutch Caribbean. It is better known as Julianadorp, a villa ward built by Royal Dutch Shell for its employees. Julianadorp is officially part of Groot Piscadera.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Curaçao
- Also known as: “Juliandorp”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hato International Airport and Hato Caves.
Hato International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Alexflink, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Curaçao International Airport, also known as Hato International Airport, is the only airport for the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, in the southern Caribbean Sea. Hato International Airport is situated 4 km north of Groot Piscadera.
Hato Caves
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hato Caves are show caves, publicly accessible since 1991 and a popular tourist attraction on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. The caves consist of marine coral limestone, which accumulated over millions of years and after sea levels had dropped were exposed to atmospheric corrosion and karstic processes. Hato Caves is situated 3½ km northeast of Groot Piscadera.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Maria and Boca Samí.
Santa Maria
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santa Maria is a neighborhood, which is situated 2½ km east of Groot Piscadera.
Boca Samí
Neighborhood
Sint Michiel is a former fishing village in Willemstad lying at the south end of Bullenbaai bay on the west coast of Curaçao. It is located 10 kilometres to the northwest of the island's city centre. Boca Samí is situated 3½ km west of Groot Piscadera.
Hato
Neighborhood
Hato is a village in Curaçao. It started as a plantation of the Dutch West Indies Company. The Curaçao International Airport has been built on the former plantation grounds. Hato is situated 5 km northwest of Groot Piscadera.
Groot Piscadera
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Curaçao, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
12.15566° or 12° 9′ 20″ northLongitude
-68.9675° or 68° 58′ 3″ westElevation
36 metres (118 feet)Open location code
774H524M+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 295125484OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Groot Piscadera” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Julianadorp (Curacao)”
- Dutch: “Julianadorp”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Julianadorp”
- Norwegian: “Julianadorp”
- Papiamento: “Julianadorp”
- Polish: “Julianadorp (Willemstad)”
- Polish: “Julianadorp”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Groot Piscadera”. Photo: Mtmelendez, CC BY-SA 3.0.