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Tobago is the smaller of the two islands, the island state of Trinidad and Tobago form. Tobago has an area of 300 sq. km (with the addition Islands Little Tobago, St Giles Iceland, Iceland and Goat Sisters' Rock 303 km ²) and a population of about 50,000 people. The island has two of the eleven regions of the state. Capital of the island and the Western region of Tobago is Scarborough, with around 20,000 inhabitants. Capital of the Eastern region of Tobago is Roxborough.
The island belongs to the Lesser Antilles and lies between the southern Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 miles north of Trinidad. The climate is tropical and characterized by high temperatures around 28 ° C with slight variations.
The island is 40.7 kilometers long and 11.9 km wide. More than half of the island is a wooded mountain range covered, the highest elevation is the peak Pidgeon with 576 m. While in the southwest of the island is flat and sandy, presents itself to the north rocky. The coast here is very rugged, punctuated by sandy coves. A special feature provides Tobago with probably his oldest nature reserve in the world: Since 1764, the rainforest in the area of the Main Ridge Forest Reserve and Site Creation "under protection. This fact is due to an impressive Tobago biodiversity, especially of birds, record.
More information about Tobago, see Wikipedia: Tobago