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Jamanota, Hooiberg, Aruba Natural Bridge and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Aruba and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Aruba's highest natural point
At 188 metres (617 ft), the highest point of Aruba, a hill in Arikok National Park. The name is Arawak and may be read roughly as follows: JA or YA is spirit; MA great, or great spirit; NO a plural ending; TA source.
Photo: Kashiunti-aua, CC0
Conical hill on Aruba
A cone-shaped hill 165 m (541 ft) high in the middle of Aruba, a striking, well-known landmark that has long drawn the eyes of islanders and visitors: the centrepiece of the island.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0
Collapsed limestone arch in Aruba
A natural bridge of coral limestone that drew tourists in Aruba until it fell in on 2 September 2005.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Gipsy assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Lighthouse in Aruba
Called Faro by locals, the tallest structure in Aruba: a lighthouse on a limestone plateau at Hudishibana, near Arashi Beach and the Sasariwichi dunes, on the island's northwestern tip.
Photo: Aruba Paradise Photos, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chapel in Aruba
A small Catholic chapel on the hills above Aruba's north shore, northeast of the town of Noord, 27 km north of Venezuela's coast. Painted a bright, stark yellow outside, it stands out as a religious monument to visit.
Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0
A fort at Oranjestad, Aruba, first built in 1798 by enslaved Africans, with materials supplied by Amerindians doing Statute Labour, or corvée, for the Dutch West India Company. It is the island's oldest building and one of its main sights, and UNESCO counts it as a 'Place of Memory of the Slave Trade Route in the Latin Caribbean'.
Photo: sectionz, CC BY 2.0
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Archaeological museum in Oranjestad, Aruba
An archaeological museum in Oranjestad, Aruba, whose collections span 2500 BCE to the 19th century.
Photo: Natalie Liao Jen, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Cave in Aruba
Also spelled Guadirikiri Caves or Quadirikiri Cave, caves at the foot of a limestone terrace in Aruba's Arikok National Park, with Amerindian petroglyphs inside.
Photo: Ginelly.Q, CC0
Church in Noord, Aruba
A Roman Catholic church in the north of Aruba, in the Catholic Diocese of Willemstad. Rebuilt several times, it goes back to 1776.
Photo: Roger Wollstadt from Sarasota, Florida, CC BY-SA 2.0
Church in Aruba, Netherlands
Also called the Pro Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, a Catholic church that serves as the pro-cathedral, a temporary cathedral, in Oranjestad, on Aruba, a Caribbean island and self-governing country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the Lesser Antilles.
Photo: Ginafromaruba, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Country of Aruba, an island that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean, 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of Venezuela's Paraguaná peninsula and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north-west of Curaçao. It took that status, and its official name, in 1986.
Officially Aruba.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Jamanota, Hooiberg, Aruba Natural Bridge and California Lighthouse and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Aruba that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
Dutch, Papiamento. The currency is AWG.
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