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Bonaire is situated only about 80 km north of Venezuela, carefully protected just outside the hurricane belt and has a perfect and steady climate with the standard temperature of roughly 30C, a pleasing refreshing breeze about throughout the year and some tropical rain showers every now and then to keep the island fantastically green and full of wildlife. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics ( CBS ), the average of stay-over vacationers every year counts about 75.000 people, together staying around 7 hundred thousand nights, of which about 35,000 are US subjects, virtually 32,000 visitors come from Europe and about 8,000 people from other states. Plenty of the visitors fall completely in love with the island and decide to look for the ideal BONAIRE REAL ESTATE in order that can visit their very own home when coming for vacations. Next to the love for the island, its pretty nature, the great atmosphere, the relaxed lifestyle and its truly friendly inhabitants, possibly the largest amount of visitors are interested by the fact that the pretty turquoise waters around Bonaire are very well known as "Divers Shangri la" which is even proudly stated on all vehicle license plates. The boomerang formed island sits on a great big coral reef offering some of the loveliest underwater views on earth, with colorful corals and an incredible growth of underwater wildlife. The spotless environment is actively guarded by Bonaires inhabitants, who like the existing natural tourism over huge developments and a large visitor industry. Reputedly the Caquetios Indians where extraordinary tall people, since the Spanish conquerors who discovered Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao in 1499 called the islands "las Islas de los Gigantes", translated : "The islands of the giants". These same conquerors decided the three ABC Islands were pointless and deported the locals in 1515 to work as slaves elsewhere.. In 1525, Juan de Ampies, the new Spanish boss of the ABC Islands decided that Bonaire may be used as a cattle plantation. He imported animals from Spain like cows, mules, horses, goats, sheep and pigs and brought back some of the Caquetios Indians to work the farms. While Curacao appeared as a focus of the slave trade, Bonaire modified into a plantation of the Dutch West India Company. A small number of slaves from Africa where brought to work to cultivate dyewood and maize and cropping salt, alongside Indians and convicts. Small stone slave sheds can still be found in the area around Rincon and on the Caribbean sea front, close to the saltpans. In times of English control, a large number of white traders settled on Bonaire. An overall total of 607 state slaves and 151 private slaves were liberated under the Emancipation Regulation on September 30, 1862. In 1867 the government sold most all of the general public lands, and in 1870 they sold the saltpans. The entire population became dependent on two giant private landowners, causing a significant amount of suffering for many people, causing tons of them to move away from Bonaire. Since the dissolution from the Netherland Antilles on 10th October 2010, Bonaire grew to become a public body from the Netherlands, together with other BES islands, Sint Eustatius and Saba and thus are now known to as special cities within the Dutch Kingdom. The islands Curaao and Sint Maarten grew to become independent states. People who visit the Dutch Caribbean, who have no need for a visa, are allowed a maximum stay of3 months every 6 month period with no special permit required. People from most countries in the world do not need a visa to go to the Dutch Caribbean. Dutch people with no Dutch Caribbean residency are authorized a maximum stay of 6 months every 12 month period. This makes it much simpler for those that wish to come to the island to find their perfect BONAIRE REAL ESTATE.
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