The
East-West Corridor is the built-up area of north
Trinidad stretching from the capital,
Port of Spain, east to
Arima. The term was coined by economist and political philosopher
Lloyd Best, after gleaning the works of a technocrat named Lynette Attwell. The Corridor includes such towns as
Laventille, Morvant,
Barataria,
San Juan,
St. Joseph,
Curepe,
St. Augustine,
Tunapuna,
Tacarigua,
Arouca, and Five Rivers, once distinct communities, now districts within a continuous urban area. For the most part it runs along the
Eastern Main Road, between the
Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and the foothills of the
Northern Range. It is a densely populated and fairly congested strip of development along some of the best agricultural soils in the country. Over 548,000 Trinidadians live in the densely populated strip. This makes it the seventh largest metropolitan area in the West Indies.