Princes Town (Region)

Princes Town
Basic data
Country	Trinidad and Tobago
Capital	Princes Town
surface	621.4 km²
Residents	102,375 (2011)
density	165 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	TT-PRT
politics
Chairman	Gowrie Roopnarine
Political party	UNC

Coordinates: 10 ° 16 ′  N , 61 ° 23 ′  W

Princes Town is a region and administrative unit in Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago .

geography

Princes Town is in the south of Trinidad. The region borders in the north on Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo , in the east on Mayaro-Rio Claro , in the west on Penal-Debe and in the northwest on San Fernando . The southern border is the Boca del Serpiente, a strait between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Paria, behind which the Venezuelan north coast extends about 30 km away. The capital and administrative seat of the region is the eponymous city of Princes Town .

The region has different geographic profiles. The eastern half is densely forested and little developed. Along the coast in the south runs the Southern Range, a low mountain range from which the Moruga River rises, which drains to the generally steep and rugged coast. The west and especially the north-west of the region are used intensively for agriculture, in the north-west there is also the densely populated area around the capital.

Significant cities and places in Princes Town are:

• Princes Town
• Moruga
• Gasparillo
• St. Madeline
• Basse Terre

Economy and Infrastructure

Until 2003, agriculture was the predominant economic sector in what is now the Princes Town region. In the years prior to 2003, the agricultural sector was dominated by Caroni (1975) Limited , a state conglomerate with a focus on sugar production and processing. In 2003 the group was liquidated by the then Trinidadian government. The service sector has since overtaken agriculture in importance. Tourism plays a subordinate role with a few beaches on the coast and few tourist attractions such as the Devil's Woordyard mud volcano .

The most important traffic route is the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway , which crosses the region in the far west and is the most important north-south route in central Trinidad. Small country roads, starting from the urban northwest, open up the south and east of the region.

history

Until 1990 Trinidad was divided into counties . As part of an administrative reform (Municipal Corporations Act No. 21), all counties were dissolved in 1990 and new administrative units were created. Parts of Victoria County became Princes Town.

Web links

• Princes Town Regional Corporation on the Ministry of Local Government website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article in the Trinidad Guardian of July 31, 2003, available online
2. ↑ PTRC: Situation Report 2, 2009, p. 27, available online ( Memento from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )