Travel Guide Guayaguayare

The east coast road descends into the heart of Trinidad's most oil-rich region. The tip of La Galeota, the peninsula at the island's southeastern tip, is still the exclusive domain of the American companies Amoco and Texaco, and cannot be entered. On the sea, the horizon clashes with the oil platforms that rise a few km from the shore. Past Guyaguayare, a village that has become very residential with time and oil money, where American-style houses are springing up like mushrooms, the East Coast road continues for 5 km along the coast before forking off abruptly to the north, towards the Trinity Hills nature reserve.