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Aruba Dushi Tera (Aruba Precious Country) is the national anthem of Aruba. It is a waltz written by Juan Chabaya Lampe and composed by Rufo Wever. It was accepted as the anthem on March 18, 1976. It is written in Papiamento. Image File history File links En-Aruba-Dushi-Tera. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their states official national song. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Papiamento or Papiamentu is a Creole language and it is the primary language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. ...
Papiamento Lyrics
Aruba patria aprecia nos cuna venera chikito y simpel bo por ta pero si respeta.
O, Aruba, dushi tera nos baranca tan stima nos amor p’abo t’asina grandi cu n’tin nada pa kibre (repeat)
Bo playanan tan admira cu palma tur dorna bo escudo y bandera ta orguyo di nos tur!
Grandeza di bo pueblo ta su gran cordialidad cu Dios por guia y conserva su amor pa libertad!
Chorus
English Translation
Aruba beloved home our venerated cradle though small and simple you may be you are indeed esteemed.
Chorus: Aruba our dear country our rock so well beloved our love for you is so strong that nothing can destroy it. (repeat)
Your beaches so much admired with palm trees all adorned your coat of arms and flag the symbols of our pride.
Chorus
The greatness of our people is their great cordiality and may God guide and preserve its love for freedom.
Aruba celebrates the flag and anthem day as a national holiday "Dia di Himno y Bandera" Flag and Anthem Day on each March 18.
Aruba offers a wide variety of accommodations from luxury hotels with their own private beach facilities to guest houses, and rental apartments.
Aruba offers duty-free shopping at the airport or at specified duty-free establishments, but the tariffs at other stores are still low at 3.3%, and there are many bargains to be had in European porcelain, jewelry, perfumes, and clothing.
Aruba is a 32 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, 27 km north of the Paraguaná Peninsula, Falcón State, Venezuela.
Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles on January 1, 1986, and became a separate, self-governing member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
One of the Lesser Antilles, specifically in the Leeward Antilles island arc, Aruba is a generally flat, riverless island renowned for its white sand beaches.
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