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Trinidad y Tobago, oficialmente la República de Trinidad y Tobago, es un país soberano insular ubicado en el mar Caribe, en la región septentrional de América del Sur. Formado por las islas principales, Trinidad y Tobago, y otras numerosas y mucho más pequeñas, está situado a 130 kilómetros al sur de Granada y a 11 kilómetros de la costa del nor...
Trinidad and Tobago is well known for its African and Indian cultures, reflected in its large and famous Carnival, Diwali, and Hosay celebrations, as well as being the birthplace of steelpan, the limbo, and music styles such as calypso, soca, rapso, parang, chutney, and chutney soca.
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The original name for the island in the Arawaks' language was Iëre which meant "Land of the Hummingbird". Christopher Columbus renamed it La Isla de la Trinidad ('The Island of the Trinity'), fulfilling a vow he had made before setting out on his third voyage. This has since been shortened to Trinidad. Indo-Trinidadians called the island चीनीदत्त (...
Caribs and Arawaks lived in Trinidad long before Christopher Columbus encountered the islands on his third voyage on 31 July 1498. The island remained Spanish until 1797, but it was settled mostly by French colonists from the French Caribbean, especially Martinique. In 1889 the two islands became a single British crown colony. Trinidad and Tobago w...
Major landforms include the hills of the Northern, Central and Southern Ranges (Dinah ranges), the Caroni, Nariva and Oropouche Swamps, and the Caroni and Naparima Plains. Major river systems include the Caroni, North and South Oropouche and Ortoire Rivers. There are many other natural landforms such as beaches and waterfalls. Trinidad has two seas...
As of the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Census, the population was 35.43% Indian, 34.22% African, 7.66% mixed African and East Indian, and 15.16% other mixed. Venezuela has also had a great impact on Trinidad's culture, such as introducing the music style parang to the island. Many groups overlap. For example, a "Dougla" is a person of African and East ...
There are multiple festivals on Trinidad, featuring the music of the Caribbean and the steelpan (which originated on Trinidad and is the country's national instrument); These festivals include the multi-national, pre-Lenten Carnivál, J'ouvert, and Panorama, the national steelpan competition. In addition to the traditional Christian holidays and off...
The island of Trinidad has a rich biodiversity. The fauna is overwhelmingly of South American origin. There are about 100 species of mammals including the Guyanese red howler monkey, the collared peccary, the red brocket deer, the ocelot and about 70 species of bats. There are over 400 species of birds including the endemic Trinidad piping-guan. Re...
The economy of Trinidad and Tobago is diversified, based to a large extent on oil and natural gas. It is one of the leading gas-based export centers in the world, being one of the top five exporters of liquefied natural gas and the largest onshore natural gas well was recently discovered in southern Trinidad. This has allowed Trinidad to capitalize...
The Venezuela Tertiary Basin is a subsidence basin formed between the Caribbean and South American plates, and is bounded on the north by the coast ranges of Venezuela and the Northern Range of Trinidad, and bounded on the south by the Guayana Shield. This Guayana shield supplied fine-grained clastic sediments, which with the subsidence, formed a r...
Bane, S.C.; Chanpong, R.R. (1980). "Geology and Development of the Teak Oil Field, Trinidad, West Indies". in Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade: 1968–1978. AAPG Memoir 30. Tulsa: American Asso...
- 4,768 km² (1,841 sq mi)
- 1,267,145 (2011)
- 940 m (3080 ft)
- Eastern Caribbean
The history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Indigenous First Peoples. Trinidad was visited by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498, (he never landed in Tobago), and claimed in the name of Spain.
- Colony under constitutional monarchy (1889–1962)
- Legislative Council
Hace 3 días · Trinidad and Tobago, island country of the southeastern West Indies. It consists of two main islands—Trinidad and Tobago—and several smaller islands. Forming the two southernmost links in the Caribbean chain, Trinidad and Tobago lie close to the continent of South America, northeast of Venezuela and northwest of Guyana.
Trinidad y Tobago, oficialmente la República de Trinidad y Tobago, es un país soberano insular ubicado en el mar Caribe, en la región septentrional de América del Sur. Formado por las islas principales, Trinidad y Tobago, y otras numerosas y mucho más pequeñas, está situado a 130 kilómetros al sur de Granada y a 11 kilómetros de la ...
La historia de Trinidad y Tobago empieza con los asentamientos amerindios. Ambas islas fueron descubiertas para los europeos por Cristóbal Colón durante su tercer viaje en 1498 . Tobago fue poseída por ingleses, franceses, holandeses y curlandos, acabando finalmente en manos de los ingleses.
