Ortoire (ward)
Ortoire may refer to: *Ortoire (archaeological site), the archaeological type site for the Ortoiroid people *Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area *Ortoire (village), a village in Mayaro County on Trinidad Island *Ortoire Municipal Corporation, a political subdivision of Mayaro–Rio Claro Regional Corporation *Ortoire River, a river on Trinidad and Tobago *Ortoire syncline, a geologic feature in Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area in the Mayaro–Rio Claro region of Trinidad * Ortoire (ward), a section of Victoria County, Trinidad and Tobago See also *Ortoiroid people The Ortoiroid people were the second wave of human settlers of the Caribbean who began their migration into the Antilles around 2000 BCE. They were preceded by the Casimiroid peoples (~4190-2165 BCE). They are believed to have originated in the Or ...

Ortoire (archaeological Site)
Ortoire, in Trinidad, is the archaeological type site for the Ortoiroid people, immigrants to the Antilles around 2000 BCE. It is a shell midden site in southeast Trinidad. Saunders, Nicholas J''The Peoples of the Caribbean: an Encyclopedia of Archeology and Traditional Culture.''ABC-CLIO, 2005. . The site is actually made up of five small sites located along a small strip of land between the ocean and a mangrove swamp which were excavated in 1953 by Irving Rouse. Rouse found manos, flattened mano-pestles made from Antillean stone, a grinding stone, bone points and fish and animal remains. Also excavated were quartz and chert chips and red ochre pebbles. The site was dated to 800 BCE. The Ortoiroid peoples, migrants who reached Antigua Island by canoe from modern Venezuela, probably around 5,000 BCE, are named after the Ortoire site. The site, from the late Archaic Period, is one of the best known archaeological sites on Trinidad. It is on the east coast of the island, near the ...
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Ortoire Block
Ortoire may refer to: *Ortoire (archaeological site), the archaeological type site for the Ortoiroid people *Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area *Ortoire (village), a village in Mayaro County on Trinidad Island *Ortoire Municipal Corporation, a political subdivision of Mayaro–Rio Claro Regional Corporation *Ortoire River, a river on Trinidad and Tobago *Ortoire syncline, a geologic feature in Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area in the Mayaro–Rio Claro region of Trinidad *Ortoire (ward), a section of Victoria County, Trinidad and Tobago See also *Ortoiroid people The Ortoiroid people were the second wave of human settlers of the Caribbean who began their migration into the Antilles around 2000 BCE. They were preceded by the Casimiroid peoples (~4190-2165 BCE). They are believed to have originated in the Or ...

Ortoire (village)
Ortoire is a village in Mayaro County on Trinidad Island. It is named after the adjacent Ortoire River. The village dates to at least the 1880s or a few decades earlier. Ortoire is just west of the peninsula of Point Radix, named after a French immigrant granted an estate there in 1783. The village's beach at the mouth of the river provides shelter to ocean-going fishing boats. The village was not listed in the 1901 census, but was believed to have "a few hundred people" then. The village is within the Ortoire Municipal Corporation, a political subdivision of the Mayaro–Rio Claro Regional Corporation, a political region of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ... that replaced the historical county of Mayaro in 1991. The Ortoire Municipal Corporati ...
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Ortoire Municipal Corporation
Ortoire is a village in Mayaro County on Trinidad Island. It is named after the adjacent Ortoire River. The village dates to at least the 1880s or a few decades earlier. Ortoire is just west of the peninsula of Point Radix, named after a French immigrant granted an estate there in 1783. The village's beach at the mouth of the river provides shelter to ocean-going fishing boats. The village was not listed in the 1901 census, but was believed to have "a few hundred people" then. The village is within the Ortoire Municipal Corporation, a political subdivision of the Mayaro–Rio Claro Regional Corporation, a political region of Trinidad and Tobago that replaced the historical county of Mayaro in 1991. The Ortoire Municipal Corporation includes the Point Radix peninsula and is bounded by Mafeking Mafikeng, officially known as Mahikeng and previously Mafeking (, ), is the capital city of the North West province of South Africa. Close to South Africa's border with Botswana, Mafiken ...
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Ortoire River
The Ortoire River is a river in Trinidad and Tobago. It forms the boundary between Nariva County and Mayaro County in east Trinidad. At over in length, it is one of Trinidad's longest rivers and is navigable by very small crafts for at least a third of its length from its mouth at the Atlantic coast near Point Radix and the village of Ortoire. It is green in color and it once had an iron bridge with wooden planks but it has been replaced by an all paved concrete bridge; also it was made higher to reduce flooding. The river is famous for a bioluminescent Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms. It is a form of chemiluminescence. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some Fungus, fungi, microorganisms including ... blueish glow that is occasionally emitted by living organisms in the water. References Rivers of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad (island) {{Trinidad-river-stub ...
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Ortoire Syncline
Ortoire may refer to: *Ortoire (archaeological site), the archaeological type site for the Ortoiroid people *Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area *Ortoire (village), a village in Mayaro County on Trinidad Island *Ortoire Municipal Corporation, a political subdivision of Mayaro–Rio Claro Regional Corporation *Ortoire River, a river on Trinidad and Tobago *Ortoire syncline, a geologic feature in Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area in the Mayaro–Rio Claro region of Trinidad *Ortoire (ward), a section of Victoria County, Trinidad and Tobago See also *Ortoiroid people The Ortoiroid people were the second wave of human settlers of the Caribbean who began their migration into the Antilles around 2000 BCE. They were preceded by the Casimiroid peoples (~4190-2165 BCE). They are believed to have originated in the Or ...

Ortoire (ward)
Ortoire may refer to: *Ortoire (archaeological site), the archaeological type site for the Ortoiroid people *Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area *Ortoire (village), a village in Mayaro County on Trinidad Island *Ortoire Municipal Corporation, a political subdivision of Mayaro–Rio Claro Regional Corporation *Ortoire River, a river on Trinidad and Tobago *Ortoire syncline, a geologic feature in Ortoire Block, an oil and gas exploration area in the Mayaro–Rio Claro region of Trinidad * Ortoire (ward), a section of Victoria County, Trinidad and Tobago See also *Ortoiroid people The Ortoiroid people were the second wave of human settlers of the Caribbean who began their migration into the Antilles around 2000 BCE. They were preceded by the Casimiroid peoples (~4190-2165 BCE). They are believed to have originated in the Or ...

Victoria County, Trinidad And Tobago
Victoria was a county on Trinidad island in Trinidad and Tobago. The county of Victoria was named in honour of Queen Victoria during the colonial British Trinidad and Tobago period. Geography Victoria County covers 813 km2 (314 mi2). The county is bordered on the north by Caroni County, the south by Saint Patrick County, and in the east by Mayaro County and Nariva County. To the west its shores are on the Gulf of Paria. The county is divided into five wards: * Pointe-à-Pierre * Naparima * Savanna Grande * Ortoire * Moruga The major towns in Victoria County include: * San Fernando * Princes Town * Debe Local government Prior to 1990 local government was administered by the Victoria County Council and the San Fernando City Corporation (the San Fernando Borough Council prior to 1988). After 1990, areas formerly administered by the Victoria County Council were divided between the Princes Town Regional Corporation, Couva–Tabaquite–Talparo Regional Corporation, and ...
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