Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation
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Couva - Tabaquite - Talparo is a region and administrative unit in Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago.
Geography
Couva - Tabaquite - Talparo is located in Central Trinidad. In the northwest, it is starting clockwise surrounded by Chaguanas, Tunapuna - Piarco, Sangre Grande, Rio Claro - Mayaro, Princes Town and San Fernando. To the west it borders on the Gulf of Paria. Capital of the region is Couva.
Major cities and places in Sangre Grande are:
- Couva ( 39 659 inhabitants as of 2000)
- Gasparillo ( 9596, 2000)
- Tabaquite ( 3314, 2005)
- Claxton Bay
- Point Lisas
- Pointe-a- Pierre
- St. Mary's
- Talparo
Economy and infrastructure
Point Lisas is home of the PLIPDECO ( Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Company ) managed industrial estates Point Lisas Industrial Estate and the Port of Point Lisas, the second largest port in the country. Here is the center of trinidianischen heavy industry, eg a steel plant of ArcelorMittal, factories for the production of methanol, ammonia and urea, two power plants, and a large desalination plant. The energy for the industrial area is recovered in natural gas fields off the east coast of Trinidad. In Pointe- à -Pierre is the oil refinery, Petrotrin, the national oil company. The United National Congress ( UNC), one of the two major parties of Trinidad, has its headquarters in the Rienzi Complex in Couva.
In the south east of Couva is the Port Lisas Campus, a branch of the University of Trinidad and Tobago is located.
The Southern Main Road, the main north - south axis of Trinidad, runs through Couva - Tabaquite - Talparo and binds to all major cities. From 1880 to 1968, the region to the Trinidad Government Railway, the trinidianische rail system, connected. In Tabaquite there was a station in Couva a termination stop. The advent of the automobile in connection with the small size of the island led to the closure of the system.
History
By 1990, Trinidad was divided into counties. In the context of an administrative reform ( Municipal Corporations Act No. 21) in 1990, all counties were dissolved and created new administrative units. From parts of the counties of Caroni and Couva - Tabaquite - Victoria was Talparo.