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The area which would eventually become Oranjestad was originally settled by the Arawak Indians. Traveling north from a number of settlements in South America, the Arawak Indians settled in Oranjestad at the beginning of the millennium and thrived in the area for nearly fifteen hundred years before the area was touched by European exploration.
Named after Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, the head of state of Aruba.
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