Yerette - Home of the hummingbirds
The place
Yerette - Home of the hummingbirds on the island of Trinidad, Maracas Valley/Saint Joseph area (Northern Range, Trinidad and Tobago), at 150 m elevation, on the slope of Mount Aripo. New Trinidad and Tobago cluster appearing at batch 354. COUNTRY ANOMALY: Trinidad and Tobago missing from the country base. Private hummingbird reserve (Theo Ferguson, 1990s+, turned his home into a hummingbird sanctuary with 20 of the world's 350 species, guided visitor experience $50, Trinidad hosts 8% of the world's hummingbird species on a compact 4,900 km² island), tropical rainforest zone of the Northern Range (heritage of the Kalinago-Arawak Amerindians who farmed here before Columbus's 3rd voyage of 1498 + Trinidad's hydrocarbons, 250,000 barrels/day, a historic producer + 3rd-highest GDP in the Caribbean after the Bahamas and Barbados), heritage of the Indo-Trinidadians (Bhojpuri Indo-Caribbean community, 40% of T&T's population, descendants of the 143,000 indentured laborers brought from India between 1845 and 1917 + Afro-Trinidadian Creoles, 40%, post-Emancipation 1834).
The setting
Trinidad Maracas Valley/Saint Joseph Northern Range Trinidad and Tobago 150 m Aripo, new cluster batch 354, Yerette Theo Ferguson 1990s+ hummingbird reserve 20/350 world species $50 Trinidad 8% of world species 4,900 km², rainforest + Kalinago-Arawak Amerindians Columbus 1498 + hydrocarbons 250,000 barrels/day + 3rd-highest Caribbean GDP, Indo-Trinidadians Bhojpuri 40% indentured laborers 1845-1917 143,000 + Afro-Trinidadian Creoles 40% post-Emancipation 1834, ANOMALY T&T missing.
