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LOCAL Thursday 11 sepTember 2025

Aruba’s neighborhoods; the meaning behind their names

Just like any other coun- development proyect that scent, during the time in
try, Aruba has unique and took place. It is hoped that the 19th century where
beautifully named neigh- the original and ‘old’ name Mestizos still lived on Aruba.
borhoods that all form a of Anabui is never lost and The name can’t really be
part of its culture and de- now it will be remembered explain and according to
velopment. Many of these by both locals and tourists. books on its history seems
names have a historical to be more of a sign of cor-
background and meaning Angochi ruption.
that teaches us about the This name can be seen
island and its rich culture on the Werbata map with However, it seems to come
every day. little and cursive letters. It is from combining A(n), which
the unofficial name for the is a generalizing prefix and
With this series, we want Ana meaning flower or the developed to have luxuri- area given by a tenant to Goeiza, which means ‘the
to take you on a journey best and Iboa; the juice of ous villas and a golf course, the land that was rented to spirit of a living man’. An-
of discovery, where you’ll a cassava, which together which lead to it getting the him. gochi remains more of a
learn not only the beautiful would mean “the best juice name Tierra Del Sol, Span- guess.
names but the history be- of a cassava”. ish for Land of the Sun. The biggest probability that
hind it that gives it life and The name is not an official historians believe is that This neighborhood’s abbre-
meaning. If one assumes that the ac- name, but the name of the it comes from native de- viation is; An.q
tual word heard was Ana-
Anabui/Tierra Del Sol boio instead, consisting of
This neighborhood can be Ana meaning the best and
seen on Van Raders map Boio (bohio); house, the it-
and Werbata as Anna eration of Anabui would
Boei. Anna Boei is a name mean “the best house.” This
of which there isn’t much is the origin that has been
information about its origin. more or less speculated
and assumed for the word
The best historians were Anabui and it’s meaning.
able to deduce is that this
name came to be be- During the second world
cause of a miscommunica- war and later, this area was
tion between Van Spengler used as a terrain for training
and the natives who were of shooting by militia and
living on the island. In the latero n Korps Mariniers (the
Arawak/Taino language marines of Aruba). By the
one can find the word end of the previous century
Anaiboa, which consists of a large part of Anabui was