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Canaan is a small village in southwestern Tobago situated about 5 minutes (by car) from Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson International Airport (formerly Crown Point Airport), and the popular beaches of Store Bay and Pigeon Point. It is between the towns of Bon Accord and Lowlands.
- Canaan, Trinidad and Tobago
In the context of places in Trinidad and Tobago, Canaan can...
- Canaan, Trinidad and Tobago
Segundo a Bíblia, Canaã era a terra prometida por Deus ao seu povo, desde o chamado de Abrão (ou Abraão), que habitava a cidade caldeia de Ur, no sul da Mesopotâmia. De acordo com a tradição, Deus chamou Abrão e lhe ordenou que fosse para a terra chamada Canaã, o que teria motivado o longo êxodo dos hebreus, que teria durado muitas ...
In the context of places in Trinidad and Tobago, Canaan can refer to either: Canaan, Tobago, birthplace of Dwight Yorke; Canaan, Trinidad; See also. List of cities and towns in Trinidad and Tobago
Canaan (/ ˈ k eɪ n ən /; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan; Biblical Greek: Χανααν – Khanaan; Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East ...
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Tobago was named Belaforme by Christopher Columbus "because from a distance it seemed beautiful". The Spanish friar Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa wrote that the Kalina (mainland Caribs) called the island Urupina because of its resemblance to a big snail,: 84–85 while the Kalinago (Island Caribs) called it Aloubaéra, supposedly because it resembled th...
Indigenous Tobago
Tobago was settled by indigenous people belonging to the Ortoiroid cultural tradition some time between 3500 and 1000 BCE.: 21–24 In the first century of the Common Era, Saladoid people settled in Tobago. They brought with them pottery-making and agricultural traditions, and are likely to have introduced crops which included cassava, sweet potatoes, Indian yam, tannia and corn.: 32–34 Saladoid cultural traditions were later modified by the introduction of the Barrancoid culture, either by tra...
European colonisation
In 1628, Dutch settlers established the first European settlement in Tobago, a colony they called Nieuw Walcheren at Great Courland Bay. They also built a fort, Nieuw Vlissingen, near the modern town of Plymouth. The settlement was abandoned in 1630 after indigenous attacks, but was re-established in 1633. The new colony was destroyed by the Spanish in Trinidad after the Dutch supported a Nepoyo-led revolt in Trinidad. Attempts by the English to colonise Tobago in the 1630s and 1640s also fai...
British rule and independence
In 1814, when the island again came under British control, another phase of successful sugar-production began.[citation needed] But a severe hurricane in 1847, combined with the collapse of plantation underwriters, end of slavery in 1834 and the competition from sugar with other European countries, marked the end of the sugar trade. In 1889, the island became a ward of Trinidad. Without sugar, the islanders had to grow other crops, planting acres of limes, coconuts and cocoa and exporting the...
Tobago has a land area of 300 km2and is approximately 40 kilometres (25 miles) long and 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) wide. It is located at latitude 11° 15' N, longitude 60° 40' W, slightly north of Trinidad. The island of Tobago is the main exposed portion of the Tobago terrane, a fragment of crustal material lying between the Caribbean and South Ame...
Central and local government functions in Tobago are handled by the Tobago House of Assembly. The current Chief Secretary of Tobago is Farley Chavez Augustine from the Progressive Democratic Patriots, which controls 14 of the 15 seats in the Assembly, with the Tobago Council of the People's National Movement led by Ancil Dennis controlling one seat...
The population was 60,874 at the 2011 census. The capital, Scarborough, has a population of 17,537. While Trinidad is multiethnic, Tobago's population is primarily of African descent, with a growing proportion of Trinidadians of East Indian descent and Europeans. Between 2000 and 2011, the population of Tobago grew by 12.55 percent, making it one o...
Tobago's main economy is based on tourism, fishing, and government spending, government spending being the largest. The local governing body, the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), employs 62% of the labor force. Tourism is still a fledgling industry. Conventional beach and water-sports tourism is largely in the southwest around the airport and the co...
Robinson Crusoe
Tobago roughly matches the size and location of the island in Robinson Crusoe, described as being located close to Trinidad and the mouth of Orinoco. However, the book is generally thought to be based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned in the Pacific's Juan Fernández Islands, on the island later named after Robinson Crusoe. On Tobago, there is Crusoe Cave.
Swiss Family Robinson
In 1958, Tobago was chosen by the Walt Disney Company as the setting for a film based upon the Johann Wyss novel Swiss Family Robinson. When producers saw the island for the first time, they "fell instantly in love".The script required animals, which were brought from all around the world, including eight dogs, two giant tortoises, forty monkeys, two elephants, six ostriches, four zebras, one hundred flamingos, six hyenas, two anacondas, and one tiger. Filming locations include Richmond Bay (...
The Tobago Forest Reserve (Main Ridge Reserve) is the oldest protected rain forest in the Western hemisphere and is biodiverse. It was designated a protected Crown reserve on 17 April 1776 after representations by Soame Jenyns, a Member of Parliament in Britainresponsible for Tobago's development. It has remained a protected area since. This forest...
A capital do país situa-se em Trindade, e é Porto da Espanha ( Port of Spain ). O relevo de Trindade é caracterizado por três cadeias de montanhas baixas que se estendem de leste a oeste ao redor do território em cujo centro existe uma planície onde se desenvolve a cultura da cana-de-açúcar.
Canaan es una localidad de Trinidad y Tobago, que forma parte de la parroquia de St. Patrick. [1] [2] Geografía. La localidad abarca parte de la isla de Tobago y limita al norte con Buccoo-Coral Gardens, al sur con Bon Accord, al este con Mt. Pleasant y Lowlands y al oeste con el mar Caribe y Milford Court-Pigeon Point. [3]
