Trinidad

Town in Beni region, northern Bolivia, near the River Mamoré, 400 km/250 mi northeast of La Paz; population (2001) 75,500. The city lies on an old lake bed, the Moxos Plains, and originated in a Jesuit mission founded here in 1686. Industries include sugar refining and alcohol distilling. It is also a commercial centre trading in rice, cotton, sugar cane, cattle, furs, and feathers. Trinidad has an airport, and is linked by roads to Puerto Ballivián and to Cochabamba. It is the home of Mariscal Jose Ballivián University.

Trinidad

Capital of Flores department, Uruguay, 160 km/99 mi northwest of Montevideo; population (1996) 18,271.

Trinidad

City in the province of Sancti Spirítus on the south coast of Cuba, in the West Indies, 282 km/175 mi southeast of Havana; population (1994 est) 38,000. It is one of the oldest towns in Cuba, founded by Diego de Velázquez in 1514. Sugar is cultivated in the surrounding area, fishing is important, as is cigar and cigarette manufacturing, but the economy of the city is based mainly on tourism.

Trinidad was one of Cuba's most prosperous cities in colonial times.

The city has been bypassed by modern development. Since the 1950s, the whole town has been protected as a national monument. It contains much well-preserved architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1988, the city was designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

It was from Trinidad that the Spanish conquistador Hermán Cortés set out on his expedition to Mexico in 1518.

Trinidad

City and administrative headquarters of Las Animas County, southern Colorado, on the Purgatoire River, 121 km/75 mi south of Pueblo; population (1990) 8,600. It is a rail, shipping, and industrial centre for a coalmining, dairy, and livestock region.

Settled by the Spanish, whose influence can still be seen in its architecture and brick streets, it was a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. The arrival of the railway in the 1870s spurred its growth as a cattle centre. It is the seat of Trinidad State Junior College (1925).