Trinidad and Tobago's Geography | Trinidad and Tobago Geography

Location: Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela

Geographic coordinates: 11 00 N, 61 00 W

Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

Area: Total: 5,128 sq km land: 5,128 sq km water: 0 sq km

Area - comparative: Slightly smaller than Delaware

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 362 km

Maritime claims: Measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin

Climate: Tropical; rainy season (June to December)

Terrain: Mostly plains with some hills and low mountains

Elevation extremes: Lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: El Cerro del Aripo 940 m

Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas, asphalt

Land use: Arable land: 14.62% permanent crops: 9.16% other: 76.22% (2001)

Irrigated land: 30 sq km (1998 est.)

Natural hazards: Outside usual path of hurricanes and other tropical storms

Environment - current issues: Water pollution from agricultural chemicals, industrial wastes, and raw sewage; oil pollution of beaches; deforestation; soil erosion

Environment - international agreements: Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Geography - note: Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt

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