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Aruba
eography
industry accounted for 25 percent
of the island's gross national
Aruba is an island in the product. When the refinery closed
West Indies, in the Caribbean in 1985, many Arubans lost their
Sea, near the Paraguaná jobs and experienced a drastic
Peninsula of Venezuela. An reduction in their standard of
integral part of the Netherlands, living. Rehabilitation of the
Aruba was a member of the refining industry began in 1989
Netherlands Antilles until 1986. and in 1993; the refinery's daily
Aruba is about 30 km (about 19 output was 140,000 barrels. The
mi) long and about 8 km (about 5 island now depends mostly on
mi) wide, and has an area of 193 tourism and the service
sq km (about 75 sq mi). The industries related to tourism,
population of Aruba at the 1991 cooperating with the Netherlands
census was 66,687, giving the Antilles to attract visitors.
island an overall population Some light industry produces
density of about 342 persons per tobacco, beverages, and consumer
sq km (about 889 per sq mi). goods. Aruba's principal port is
Oranjestad (population, 1991 Oranjestad and the island's
estimate, 20,000) is the capital international airport is located
and main town. Sint Nicolaas, the nearby. The island's unit of
site of an oil refinery, has a currency is the Aruban guilder or
population of about 17,000. gulden.
Economy Political Information
Until the mid-1980s, the refining In 1986, Aruba became an
of Venezuelan oil was the main autonomous and self-governing
source of employment in Aruba. In entity. The official head of
1984, the petroleum refining government is the Dutch monarch,
represented by an appointed seats of the legislature, called
governor. The governor is the Staten. The Court of First
responsible for all external Instance and a court of appeal
affairs. The prime minister comprise Aruba's judiciary.
nominates a council of ministers Defense is the responsibility of
and together they are responsible the Netherlands. The University
for the island's internal of Aruba (1970) is located in
executive functions. Popularly Oranjestad.
elected officials fill the 21
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