San Juan Laventille

San Juan Laventille
Basic data
Country	Trinidad and Tobago
Capital	San Juan
surface	220.4 km²
Residents	157,000 (2011)
density	712 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	TT-SJL
politics
Chairman	Anthony Roberts
Political party	PNM

Coordinates: 10 ° 39 ′  N , 61 ° 27 ′  W San Juan-Laventille is a region and administrative unit in Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago .

geography

San Juan-Laventille is in the north of Trinidad. It is bordered by Diego Martin to the west, Port of Spain and the Gulf of Paria to the southwest , Chaguanas to the south and Tunapuna-Piarco to the east . In the north, San Juan-Laventille borders the Caribbean Sea .

The island of Trinidad is administratively divided into two cities , three boroughs and nine regions. Of the regions, San Juan Laventille is the smallest. However, since it includes parts of the capital agglomeration East-West Corridor in the south , it is also one of the most populous regions. The northern part is dominated by the poorly populated and partly undeveloped and inaccessible Northern Range . The smallest administrative unit in Trinidad and Tobago is the community , comparable to a German location . San Juan-Laventille is divided into 41 such communities :

• Lady Chancellor
• St. Anns
• Picton
• Upper Belmont
• St. Barbs
• Eastern Quarry
• El Socorro
• El Socorro Extension
• Barataria
• San Juan
• Aranguez
• Laventille
• Morvant
• Cascade
• Mon repos
• Malick
• Petit Bourg
• Beetham Estate
• Gran Curucaye
• Cantaro Village
• Maracas
• Mt. Lambert
• Mt. Hope
• Romain Lands
• Marie Road
• Never dirty
• Febeau Village
• Lower Santa Cruz
• La Canoa
• Santa Cruz
• Sam Boucaud
• Soconusco
• La Pastora
• Petit Curucaye
• Mount D'or
• Maracas Bay
• Las Cuevas
• Bamboo Grove
• Blanchisseuse
• Bejucal
• Champs Fleurs

Major cities in San Juan-Laventille are:

• San Juan (44,230 inhabitants)
• Morvant (22,742)
• Laventille (21,454)
• Barataria (18,299)
• St. Joseph (14,376)
• Santa Cruz (12,521)
• Champs Fleurs (8310)

Trinidad's most famous beach, Maracas Beach, is located in the San Juan Laventille area.

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 the counties of Saint George and Caroni became San Juan-Laventille. The region is administered territorial San Juan-Laventille Regional Corporation. The administrative seat is in San Juan .

economy

Caroni Swamp

Since San Juan-Laventille includes parts of the East-West Corridor , a significant part of Trinidad's economic output is generated here. There are many companies in the food and light industry for local needs and the supply of the neighboring islands, u. a. the beverage manufacturers Solo Beverages and Carib Brewery . The service sector is characterized by financial service providers such as banks, insurance companies and many wholesalers and retailers. Due to the drainage of the Northern Range to the south, the soil along the East-West Corridor is very fertile, so that numerous farms have settled on the edge of the agglomeration. On the north coast and in the south, Caroni Swamp , tourism is an economic factor to a lesser extent. A University of the West Indies campus is located in St. Augustine.

traffic

The Piarco International Airport is ten kilometers east in the Tunapuna-Piarco region. San Juan-Laventille is located on the two most important traffic axes in the country: the East-West Corridor with the highways Churchill Roosevelt Highway and Eastern Main Road , which run parallel to each other from Port of Spain to Valencia , and the Uriah Butler Highway between Port of Spain and Chaguanas, the main north-south axis. Both the two highways and the Eastern Main Road are notoriously congested. Rail traffic in Trinidad only existed until 1968.

Web links

• San Juan-Laventille Regional Corporation on Facebook

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Citypopulation.de
2. ↑ NALIS.gov.tt: History of Local Government. Accessed August 21, 2020 .