Pitch Lake
Good to know
- Best time to go
- January to May, when the surface is firmest to walk on
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The largest natural deposit of asphalt on Earth, a forty-hectare expanse of slowly churning black pitch at La Brea in southwest Trinidad. Walter Raleigh caulked his ships here in 1595, its tar has paved streets from London to New York, and warm sulphurous pools on its surface are used for bathing.
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