Noord () is a town and region in

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(part of the

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). This town is known for its low rise and high rise hotels, restaurants, beaches, malls, the California Lighthouse, and other places of attraction. Places of interest in Noord include

Alto Vista Chapel Alto Vista Chapel is a small Catholic chapel also known as "Pilgrims Church" that stands on the hills above the north shore of the sea and to the northeast of the town of Noord, on the island of Aruba, 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela. ...

Bubali Bird Sanctuary The Bubali Bird Sanctuary ( Dutch: ''Bubali vogelreservaat'') form a 20 ha wetland area at the north-western end of the island of Aruba, a constituent country of the Dutch Caribbean. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by Bir ...

California Lighthouse The California Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Hudishibana near Arashi Beach and the Sasariwichi dunes on the northwest tip of Aruba. This lighthouse was named for the steamship ''California'', which was wrecked nearby on September 23, ...

, Palm Beach and

Arashi Beach Arashi (or Arasji) is a settlement and beach on the northwestern tip of Aruba, in Noord district. It is close to Malmok, Kudarebe and the California Lighthouse The California Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Hudishibana near Arashi Beac ...

Tanki Flip

The town of Tanki Flip is home to an

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settlement whose remains date from 1000 to 1500. The village contained several ''

maloca A maloca is an ancestral long house used by indigenous people of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil. Each community has a maloca with its own unique characteristics. Several families with patrilineal relations live together in a malo ...

s'' (long houses) with several smaller round houses and a central hut surrounded by an open plaza. The village was fenced off and inhabited by

Caquetio Caquetio, Caiquetio, or Caiquetia are natives of northwestern Venezuela, living along the shores of Lake Maracaibo at the time of the Spanish conquest. They moved inland to avoid enslavement by the Spaniards, while their numbers were drastically ...

people.

Cas Tan Tin

Cas Tan Tin is a ''cunucu'' (rural) house in Noord. It was built by Mario and Johanna Tromp in the early 20th century. They raised nine children and grew fruits and vegetables at Cas Tan Tin. Nowadays it is located in the suburban sprawl. In 2019, it was bought by the , because it is a traditional house in perfect condition with authentic furniture. On 29 September 2019, Cas Tan Tin opened for public viewing.

Commanders' Graves

Up to 1754, only the commanders and employees of the

Dutch West India Company The Dutch West India Company ( nl, Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie, ''WIC'' or ''GWC''; ; en, Chartered West India Company) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors. Among its founders was Willem Usselincx ( ...

(WIC) were allowed on the island of Aruba. One of the cemeteries of the WIC employees is located on the dirt road between Sero Patrishi and Shiribana. There are 16 graves at the cemetery, however the only readable epitaph is of Simon Plats who died in on 14 August 1827. In 1989, the graves were transferred to the monuments funds and restored.

Notable people

Jean-Marc Antersijn Jean-Marc Antersijn (born 5 January 1996) is an professional Aruban football goalkeeper who plays for American soccer team Atlantic City. Club career Following an internship with PEC Zwolle, Antersijn moved to Haaglandia to replace Jan Vermole ...

(1996), football player. *

Olga Orman Olga Orman (9 November 1943 – 7 March 2021) was a Dutch-Aruban writer, poet and storyteller. She wrote both in Papiamento and Dutch. Orman introduced ''kamishibai'', a Japanese form of storytelling, to the Netherlands and the ABC islands. Biog ...

(1943–2021), author, poet and storyteller. *

Sidney Ponson Sidney Alton Ponson (; born November 2, 1976) is an Aruban former Major League Baseball pitcher. As a player, Ponson stood at tall and weighed . He threw right-handed with a fastball that clocked out at 95 mph. When he made his major league ...

(1976), a

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pitcher.

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* {{Commons category-inline, Noord (Aruba) Populated places in Aruba Regions of Aruba