Curacao and her sister islands Aruba and Bonaire (the A B C islands) are located in the southern Caribbean, about 800 miles north of the equator. According to Wikipedia Curacao is approximately 12 degrees N. latitude, about 40 miles north of Venezuela. This location puts the small 38 mile long island to southern fringes of the hurricane belt; which is to say hurricanes are very rarely seen here compared to the rest of the caribbean. The less likelihood of these monster hurricane storms to ruin your vacation makes planning a trip to Curacao an easy choice. As stated in the title above, Curacao's the "Beauty Below the Belt". Below the hurricane belt that is.