Jan Thiel
Jan Thiel is a neighborhood in Curaçao. Jan Thiel is situated nearby to the neighborhood Marbella Estate, as well as near the locality Lagunisol.- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: town in Curaçao
- Also known as: “Damascus” and “Jan Tiel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Landhuis Brakkeput Mei Mei and Curaçao Centre for Correction and Detention.
Landhuis Brakkeput Mei Mei
Manor estate
Photo: Kattiel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Landhuis Brakkeput Mei Mei is a manor estate.
Curaçao Centre for Correction and Detention
Police station
Curaçao Centre for Correction and Detention is the only prison on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Since the construction of the prison in 1960 the prison has also been known as the Koraal Specht-prison, after the name of the neighbourhood it is located in.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koraal Specht and Saliña.
Koraal Specht
Suburb
Photo: Robosk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Koraal Specht is a suburb, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Jan Thiel.
Saliña
Neighborhood
Saliña is a residential area in southeast Curaçao located in the eastern part of the capital, Willemstad. The word Saliña in Papiamentu means salt lake. Saliña is situated 4 km northwest of Jan Thiel.
Steenrijk
Neighborhood
Steenrijk is a neighbourhood of Willemstad, Curaçao. It is located about one kilometre south-east of the centre of Willemstad, and has the highest population density of the island. Steenrijk is situated 4 km west of Jan Thiel.
Jan Thiel
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Curaçao, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
12.08521° or 12° 5′ 7″ northLongitude
-68.87656° or 68° 52′ 36″ westElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
774H34PF+39OpenStreetMap ID
node 639265771OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Jan Thiel” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Jan Thiel”
- German: “Jan Thiel”
- Polish: “Jan Thiel (Spaanse Water)”
- Polish: “Jan Thiel”
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