Black Rock (Trinidad and Tobago)
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 12 ′ N , 60 ° 47 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | TT-TOB | ||
| Residents | 1200 (2011) | ||
Black Rock is a village on Tobago in the densely populated Saint Patrick in the southwest of the island on the Caribbean coast, one kilometer southeast of Plymouth . The village has about 1200 inhabitants. The two communities Black Rock and Black Rock / St. Irvine has a combined population of 1923.
geography
The place is bordered by two beaches, in the north by Turtle Beach with a length of 4 km, which is also a breeding place for the leatherback turtle ( Dermochelys coriacea ), and in the south by Courland Bay, because of its location below the former Grafton Estates, also Grafton Called Beach.
Politically, Black Rock belongs to the constituency of Black Rock / Whim / Spring Garden. Kevin Charles ( PNM ), who is also the chief secretary of the body, has been the representative of the constituency in the Tobago House of Assembly since 2017 .
history
Between 1628 and 1636 the Dutch, then a colonial power of Tobago, built the fortification Fort Bennett on the site of today's Black Rock. In the 1680s, the fort was expanded by the rulers of that time, the Kurlanders . At the beginning of the 19th century there was a further expansion by the British who now ruled Tobago.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Census 2011
- ↑ THA.gov.tt: New Assembly Installed. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . (PDF, 900 kB)
- ^ DestinationTnT.com: Fort Bennet. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .