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Penal
Town in Trinidad and Tobago

Penal

Penal is a town in south Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.

It lies south of San Fernando, Princes Town, and Debe, and north of Moruga, Morne Diablo and Siparia. Penal is noted as a heartland of Hindu and Indo-Trinidadian culture.

How locals move

Getting around Penal the local way

  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: San Fernando, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Peter Haas (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.