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 Rio Claro ( Portuguese and Spanish for "clear river" or "clean river") may refer to: Cities * Rio Claro, Trinidad and Tobago, the largest town in southeastern Trinidad and Tobago * Rio Claro, Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian municipality in the state ...

and west of the

Navet Dam The Navet Dam is one of the major reservoirs supplying potable water in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in Tabaquite, Trinidad and Tobago and is managed by the Water and Sewerage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago. The dam was completed in 1962, ...

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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 Couva–Tabaquite–Talparo is one of the nine regions of Trinidad and Tobago, and one of the five regions which form the Gulf of Paria coastline on Trinidad's West Coast. Its regional capital and commercial center is Couva. Couva–Tabaquite–T ...

. 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 1 ...

. 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".

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