The first inhabitants probably migrated from Venezuela around 2500 BC
Peter Stuyvesant
Director of the Dutch West India Company's colony of Curaçao from 1642 to 1644.
The lyrics were first written by a friar of Dutch origin, Friar Radulphus, in celebration of the coronation of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898. It was not until the 1930s when another friar, Friar Candidus Nouwens, composed the melody to which the anthem is sung today. In 1978 the government commissioned a group to rewrite the lyrics to the anthem before it was recognized as the official anthem of Curaçao.
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