Bonaire
Capital · Kralendijk
Salt pans still edge the southern coast, and beside them the stone huts where the enslaved who worked them slept — left standing deliberately.
Bonaire at a glance
- Capital
- Kralendijk
- Region
- Southern Caribbean · Dutch special municipality
- Currency
- US dollar (USD)
- Languages
- Papiamentu · Dutch · English
- Dialling code
- +599
- Status
- Territory or overseas department
The African connection
The slave huts at Rode Pan are barely tall enough to sit up in. They were built in 1850 and kept as a memorial, one of the most direct physical records of slavery anywhere in the Dutch Caribbean.
Key dates for Bonaire
The dates this community marks — independence, emancipation, and the festivals that fill a hall wherever its people have settled.
Diaspora meets diaspora
AfricAsia began with Africans in Asia. The same story runs through every entry in this section — people of African descent building a life a long way from where their ancestors started.
If you are from Bonaire and you are anywhere in Asia — studying, working, playing, passing through — there are people here who will know what you are asking before you finish the question.
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