San Nicolaas
San Nicolaas is 19 kilometres southeast of Oranjestad, and is Aruba's second largest city. As of 2010 it has a population of 15,283, many of whom originate from the British Caribbean and the rest of the Caribbean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 18,000 residents
- Description: city in Aruba
- Also known as: “San Nicolas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Model Trains Museum and Rodgers Beach.
Model Trains Museum
Museum
The Model Trains Museum is a private museum in the town of San Nicolaas in Aruba. It covers the history of train traffic from 1875 to the present. The museum is on the ground floor of a private residence, and includes model trains from England, Germany, the U.S, and Canada, and a number of model planes and automobiles as well.
Rodgers Beach
Beach
Photo: Ginafromaruba, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rodgers Beach, Aruba, officially known as Nanki is a small beach immediately west of Baby Beach. It is known for its calm waters and private feel, though it is a public beach. The water is shallow at first, but further out it becomes a good swimming beach. Rodgers Beach is situated 3½ km southeast of San Nicolaas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ceru Colorado and Savaneta.
Ceru Colorado
Village
Seroe Colorado is a village situated at the southeastern tip of Aruba, an island located in the Dutch Caribbean. Nowadays, it is known for the Anchor in Memory to All Seamen. Ceru Colorado is situated 3½ km southeast of San Nicolaas.
Savaneta
Photo: Caribiana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Savaneta is a town and region in southeastern Aruba. Until 1797, it was the island's capital city. It is home to the island's oldest surviving home, a 150-year-old cas di torto, or mud hut.
San Nicolaas
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Aruba, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
12.43638° or 12° 26′ 11″ northLongitude
-69.909° or 69° 54′ 32″ westPopulation
18,000Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)United Nations Location Code
AW SNLOpen location code
774GC3PR+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 13111662192OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Western Frisian—“San Nicolaas” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сынт-Нікаляас”
- Cebuano: “Sint Nicolaas”
- Chinese: “圣尼古拉斯”
- Chinese: “聖尼古拉斯”
- Dutch: “San Nicolas”
- Dutch: “Sint Nicolaas (Aruba)”
- Dutch: “Sint Nicolaas”
- Esperanto: “San Nicolas”
- French: “Sint Nicolaas”
- German: “San Nicolas”
- Greek: “Άγιος Νικόλαος”
- Greek: “Σαν Νικολάας, Αρούμπα”
- Greek: “Σαν Νικολάας”
- Japanese: “サン・ニコラス”
- Lithuanian: “Sint Nikolasas”
- Lithuanian: “St. Nicolas”
- Low German: “Sint Nicolaas”
- Malay: “Sint Nicolaas, Aruba”
- Malay: “Sint Nicolaas”
- Papiamento: “Chocolate city”
- Papiamento: “San Nicolaas”
- Papiamento: “San Nicolas”
- Polish: “San Nicholas”
- Polish: “Sint Nicolaas”
- Russian: “Синт-Николас”
- Spanish: “San Nicolaas”
- Swedish: “Sint Nicolaas”
- Ukrainian: “Сінт-Ніколас”
- Urdu: “سان نکولاس”
- Western Frisian: “Sint Nicolaas”
- Western Frisian: “Sint-Nicolaas”
- “San Nicolaas”
- “San Nicolas”
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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 “San Nicolaas”. Photo: Natalie Liao, CC BY-SA 3.0.