Geography Of Trinidad and Tobago

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
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 exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin contiguous zone: 24 nm territorial sea: 12 nm
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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