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Map showing location of the Pitch Lake. The Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of bitumen in the world, estimated to contain 10 million tons. It is located in La Brea in southwest Trinidad, within the Siparia Regional Corporation. The lake covers about 0.405 square kilometres (100 acres) and is reported to be 76.2 metres (250 feet) deep. [1]
La Brea is a town in southwestern Trinidad, located northeast of Point Fortin and southwest of San Fernando. La Brea (Spanish for "the tar" or "the pitch") [1] is best known as the site of the Pitch Lake, a natural asphalt lake.
The pair planned a commercial venture that would supply Halifax with lamp oil and mine bitumen deposits in Trinidad and Albert Country, New Brunswick. [18] [19] By 1850, Cochrane had purchased all the land surrounding Trinidad's pitch lake in support of the endeavour. [20]
Stark's Guide-Book and History of Trinidad including Tobago, Granada, and St. Vincent; also a trip up the Orinoco and a description of the great Venezuelan Pitch Lake. Boston: James H. Stark, publisher; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company. Williams, Eric. 1964. History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago, Andre Deutsch, London.
Trinidad and Tobago. 2011 vii, viii (natural) The Pitch Lake is found in southwest Trinidad in the village of La Brea. The lake measures approximately one hundred (100) acres (41 hectares), and is estimated to be two hundred and fifty (250) feet (76 metres) deep in the centre. It holds about ten million (10,000,000) tons of pitch.
The earliest mention of petroleum seeps in the Americas occurs in Sir Walter Raleigh's account of the Pitch Lake on Trinidad in 1595. Thirty-seven years later, the account of a visit of a Franciscan, Joseph de la Roche d'Allion, to the oil springs of New York was published in Sagard's Histoire du Canada.
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Barber Asphalt Company's Men Laying Trinidad Pitch Lake Asphalt on a Fort Wayne Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1906. The Barber Asphalt Company of Washington, D.C. was founded in 1883 was founded by Amzi L. Barber. Barber, born in 1843. began his first career as a teaching professor, and then moved into real estate.