Tabaquite is a town in central
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
, north of
Rio Claro and west of the
Navet Dam.
Overview
Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2015
Kimberly Singh hails from Tabaquite.
Tabaquite is a primarily rural area and suffers from infrastructural neglect. It was an important cocoa bean producer. Now it is one of the major vegetable producers on the island. Producing vegetables such as cassava, melongene, cucumber, a variety of peppers, tomatoes, celery, chive, pumpkin, ochro, and Canadian sweet corn. Many families produce these vegetables and sell them at the various wholesale markets.
Tabaquite is administered by the
Couva–Tabaquite–Talparo Regional Corporation.
Tabaquite was served for a time by a station on the
Trinidad Government Railway
The Trinidad Government Railway existed between 1876 and 28 December 1968. Originally built to connect Port of Spain with Arima, the railway was extended to Couva in 1880, San Fernando in 1882, Cunapo (now Sangre Grande) in 1897, Tabaquite in 18 ...
. It has the longest tunnel in the Caribbean measuring approximately 660 feet, The Knollys Tunnel, which was named after the then-acting Colonial Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys KCMG, who officially opened the new railway tunnel on 20th August 1898.
"Tabaquite sweet, Tabaquite nice, Tabaquite really is a paradise".
See also
Tabaquite is well known for the knollys tunnel one of the only visible areas in Trinidad where once the nations Railway ran.
References
Populated places in Trinidad and Tobago
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