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Pitch Lake

landform
Place Tar Pit Q717351

Facts

12 properties

Designation

Instance of
tar pit
Heritage designation
Tentative World Heritage Site[7]

Location

Country
Trinidad and Tobago[2]
Location
La Brea[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 10.232°, -61.628°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Siparia Regional Corporation[1]
More facts +6
Area
40 ha[9]
Continent
North America[3]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica Online[6]
Located in/on physical feature
Trinidad[5]
Native label
Pitch Lake[8]
World Heritage criteria
(vii), (viii)[10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Pitch Lake ar بحيرة الزفت es Lago de la Brea fa دریاچه قیر fr lac Pitch he אגם הזפת ja ピッチ湖 pl Jezioro Asfaltowe ru Питч-Лейк ru Пич-Лейк sv La Brea asfaltsjö uk Піч-Лейк zh 彼奇湖
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Pitch Lake.JPG ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
pitch-lake
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/pitch-lake, place/Pitch-Lake-Trinidad-and-Tobago
Freebase ID
/m/05g5v3
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1,360,587
GeoNames ID
3573915
OpenStreetMap way ID
169999818
World Heritage Tentative List ID
5645

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Continent 1
North America
Country 1
Trinidad and Tobago
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Heritage designation 1
Tentative World Heritage Site
Instance of 1
tar pit
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Siparia Regional Corporation
Located in/on physical feature 1
Trinidad
Location 1
La Brea
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Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26w ago · Jarkn · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at URL → —
    "Removed claim: Described at URL: https://www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/asfaltove-jazero/, Removing PlaceMania.sk P973 link added by me after COI/spam concern; see User talk:Ja"
  2. 27w ago · Jarkn · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → North America
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Siparia Regional Corporation
    Area → 40 hectare
    World Heritage criteria → (vii), (viii)
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Described at URL: https://www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/asfaltove-jazero/, Add Slovak descriptive resource (P973)"
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