Pointe-à-Pierre
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Pointe-à-Pierre ( ) is a town in Trinidad and Tobago. It lies north of San Fernando and south of Claxton Bay. It is most famous as the site of the country's largest (and now, only) oil refinery which used to be run by Petrotrin, the state-owned oil company.
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Vinony files it under Gulf of Paria, Populated places in Trinidad and Tobago and Ports and harbours of Trinidad and Tobago.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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Pointe-à-Pierre ( ) is a town in Trinidad and Tobago. It lies north of San Fernando and south of Claxton Bay. It is most famous as the site of the country's largest (and now, only) oil refinery which used to be run by Petrotrin, the state-owned oil company.
The town was built for and is populated by employees of the company. Facilities provided for the residents include a primary school, a yacht club and a staff club equipped with a pool, tennis courts and squash courts (and in the mid-1960s an 18-hole golf course and a secondary school, of which only the golf course remains).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pointe-à-Pierre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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