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 Trinidad and Tobago, more specifically in La Brea in southwest Trinidad, within the Siparia Regional Corporation.Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Brea.
Pitch Lake
- Lake
- Description: landform
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
10.2345° or 10° 14′ 4″ north
Longitude
-61.6273° or 61° 37′ 38″ west
Open location code
772W69MF+R3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Pitch Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة الزفت”
- Basque: “Pitch Lake”
- Bulgarian: “Катранено езеро”
- Bulgarian: “Катраненото езеро”
- Chinese: “彼奇湖”
- Croatian: “Jezero Pitch”
- Croatian: “Pitch”
- Czech: “Pitch Lake”
- Dutch: “Pitch Lake”
- Esperanto: “Asfalta Lago”
- Estonian: “Pitchi asfaldijärv”
- Finnish: “Pitch Lake”
- French: “lac Pitch”
- French: “Pitch Lake”
- Georgian: “პიჩ-ლეიკი”
- German: “La Brea Pitch Lake”
- German: “Pitch Lake”
- Hebrew: “אגם הזפת”
- Hungarian: “Pitch-tó”
- Japanese: “ピッチ湖”
- Lithuanian: “Asfalto ežeras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Brea asfaltsjø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitch Lake”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tierra de Brea”
- Norwegian: “Pitch Lake”
- Persian: “دریاچه قیر”
- Polish: “Jezioro Asfaltowe”
- Portuguese: “Pitch Lake”
- Russian: “Питч-Лейк”
- Russian: “Пич-Лейк”
- Spanish: “Lago de la Brea”
- Swedish: “La Brea asfaltsjö”
- Ukrainian: “Піч-Лейк”
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