Bacolet
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Coordinates: 11 ° 10 ′ N , 60 ° 43 ′ W Bacolet on the map of Trinidad and Tobago
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| Country | Trinidad and Tobago | |
| Ward | Tobago | |
| Residents | 433 (2011) | |
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| City structure | 1 community | |
| Waters | Bacolet River | |
Bacolet is a place on Tobago in Trinidad and Tobago .
location
Bacolet is located in the southwestern part of Tobago in the Western Tobago region , southeast of the island's capital Scarborough , from which it is separated by a hill on which the historic Fort King George is located. On the eastern edge of the village, the Bacolet River flows into Minister Bay.
history
The name Bacolet is of French origin and goes back to a plantation of the same name in the area of today's town that existed until the 1930s. In 1843 a lighthouse was built at Bacolet Point. Until the end of the 19th century, Bacolet participated in the prosperity of sugar cane plantations through a windmill in which sugar cane was pressed. Only a ruin remains of the mill.
Bacolet is a popular retirement home for European and US retirees. The town hit the headlines in 2014 when a German retired couple was murdered with machetes there. A British couple had already been attacked in a similar way in Bacolet in 2009 and only barely survived, and another German was also murdered in Bacolet in 2009. All the victims lived in Bacolet.
Economy and Transport
Bacolet lives primarily from tourism. Several higher-priced hotels have settled along the coast, the oldest of which is housed in a former depot for donkey carts from the 1850s.
The Claude Noel Highway, named after the former WBA boxing world champion Claude Noel , is the only highway on Tobago and ends in Bacolet.
Facilities
The Dwight Yorke Stadium , venue for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship and home stadium of Tobago United , located in Bacolet. The first division hockey club Paradise Hockey Club also plays its home games in the football stadium. The Austrian Honorary Consulate is located in Bacolet . In the vicinity of the place is the Bacolet Formation, a site of fossils from the Albium .
Personalities
- Alloy Johnson (born 1961), television presenter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angelo Bissessarsingh: Plantation Christmas - Part III Tobago celebrates with food, drinks . In: Trinidad Guardian . December 28, 2014.
- ↑ Caribbean History Archives: Crop Over in Tobago. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Trinidad Guardian of November 23, 2014: German couple hacked to death in Tobago. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Daily Star of March 8, 2015: We nearly died at hands of 'ripper in paradise! Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Trinidad Express of November 4, 2009: Autopsy: Victim died of asphyxia ( Memento of July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Voice-Online.co.uk: Table For One In Tobago. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Fossilworks.org: Bacolet formation. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .