Many refer to the group of islands off the coast of Venezuela - Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao - as the "ABC Islands". But often, Aruba and Bonaire eclipse the "C", Curaçao. No one is sure how this curious island got its name, but one theory is that it comes from the Portuguese word that means "heart", since the island was the center of commerce in the seventeenth century. Although the name has remained, Portuguese is only one of the languages that you will hear on the island of Curacao: Papiamento, Dutch, English and Spanish are the others.
