Places of Trinidad and Tobago by Description

The capital

Was once known as San José de Oruña

First area in Trinidad sighted by Christopher Columbus

Lies on Tobago's Caribbean Sea coast

Lies on the south coast of Trinidad, about 3 miles west of Palo Seco

Named after a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Spanish word for "Pitch"

Lies on Moruga Road and settled in 1816 by Afro-American soldiers

Sir Solomon Hochoy spent his early years here, a village settled by the French in 1783

Lies between Brasso , Caparo, Tabaquite and Gran Couva in central Trinidad

Spanish surveyors found that the waters of two of the tributaries of the nearby Oropouche River were red as blood, giving the town its name

Home of the Santa Rosa Carib Community annual festival

The first calypsonian, Gros Jean was a slave on Begorrat's estate around 1800, here

The Cipero, Vistabella, Marabella and Godineau Rivers all enter the sea within the city limits