Debe
Debe is a town in south Trinidad located in the region of Penal–Debe.
Debe is a town in south Trinidad located in the region of Penal–Debe. Debe has grown from a small settlement into a key transit point which as has merged to some extent with Penal. A denomination high school was established by the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha. Debe had initially gained importance as a train stop during sugar cane production. However with the closure of the sugar industry Debe continued to be widely known for doubles and other delicacies. The area has also gained prominence for its wholesale marketing of agricultural produce in government managed Namdevco, which is the largest wholesale market in the country. Chutney music is believed to have originated in the Barrackpore-Debe-Penal area.
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Worth seeing in and around Debe
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Banwari Trace
Banwari Trace, an Archaic site in southwestern Trinidad, is the oldest archaeological site in the Caribbean.
4.1 km · archaeological site in Trinidad and Tobago · Wikipedia
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Getting to Debe
- Airports
- Piarco (POS), 46 km · A.N.R. Robinson (TAB), 125 km · Maurice Bishop (GND), 204 km
- Port of Spain → Debe51 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · $5–7
- Scarborough → Debe134 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · $17–23
- Saint George's → DebeTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Debe
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Debe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Port-of-Spain, a water taxi can be taken across the Gulf of Paria, and docks at the Water Taxi Terminal on Lady Hailes Avenue.
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Next door to Debe
- Penaltown in south Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago3.6 km