Cultural and Historic Places in Curaçao from OpenStreetMap

Curaçao's cultural and historic places exported from OpenStreetMap. The dataset includes museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via tourism, amenity, historic, or heritage keys. It was exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Map cultural heritage assets for protection based on OSM tags like `historic` and `heritage`.
• Analyze the distribution of tourism amenities like museums and galleries for regional planning.
• Create cultural context layers for tourism applications based on categorized places of interest.

Strengths

• Covers multiple cultural place types including museums, galleries, theatres, and monuments.
• Derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative global mapping project.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:58:22.077516; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Curaçao