Sangre Grande (Region)

Sangre Grande
Basic data
Country	Trinidad and Tobago
Capital	Sangre Grande
surface	898.9 km²
Residents	75,766 (2011)
density	84 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	TT-SGE
Website	www.sgrc.gov.tt (English)
politics
Chairman	Terry Martin Rondon
Political party	PNM

Coordinates: 10 ° 35 ′  N , 61 ° 8 ′  W

Sangre Grande is a region and administrative unit in Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago .

geography

Sangre Grande is located in the northeast of Trinidad. In the west it borders on Tunapuna-Piarco , in the southwest on Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo and in the south on Mayaro-Rio Claro . It is bounded to the north by the Caribbean Sea and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean . The capital of the region is Sangre Grande.

Sangre Grande is the largest region in Trinidad in terms of area and with 70 inhabitants per square kilometer, it is the second most sparsely populated after Mayaro-Rio Claro. The north of the region is characterized by the Northern Range . Significant cities and places in Sangre Grande are:

• Sangre Grande (12,436 inhabitants, as of 2000)
• Toco (4,636)
• Valencia (3,760)
• Caigual (630)

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. The Counties of St. David and St. Andrew became Sangre Grande.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CityPopulation.de: Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved March 29, 2017 . 
2. ^ InvestintheCommonwealth.com: San Juan / Laventille Regional Corporation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on March 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.