ALOE IN ARUBA

 

Between 1840 and 1850 the Aloe Vera plant has been brought to Aruba and is since then cultivated in Aruba on a large scale. Aruba had the ideal climate for the Aloe plant and very soon thousands of acres of Aloe were grown and many Aruban families lived from the harvest of the Aloe Vera, in those days only for the export of the raw material for laxatives.

 

In the literature on Aloe the quality of the Aruba Aloes were undisputedly superior to other Aloes and this was also the reason that at the beginning of our century Aruba became the largest exporter of Aloe Vera products in the world and soon earned the name "Island of Aloe".

 

In the code of arms of Aruba an Aloe plant is shown and the official name for the laxative raw material is "Curacao Aloes", named after the harbor from where the Aruba Aloes were shipped all over the world (Curacao itself had virtually no Aloe production).

 

At the end of the fifties, new, synthetic laxatives replaced the Aloes worldwide and other industries (oil-refining and tourism) replaced the Aloe industry in Aruba. The Aloe fields, however, remained, and still Aruba was the "Island of Aloe" and the Aloe plant stayed in the code of arms of Aruba. Aruba had set the record to be able to be the largest supplier in the world, of the best Aloe in the world.

 

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