Piarco, a town in northern Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

, is the site of Piarco International Airport

Piarco International Airport

Piarco International Airport is the main airport serving Trinidad and Tobago located in Piarco, a town in northern Trinidad, about east of the capital city, Port of Spain. It is one of two international airports serving the twin isle republic. The other is located on the island of Tobago, A.N.R...

(IATA Airport Code

IATA airport code

An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association...

: POS). It also includes the village of St. Helena. Piarco is the site of one of the few natural savanna

Savanna

A savanna, or savannah, is a grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of C4 grasses.Some...

s in Trinidad and Tobago, the Piarco Savanna. Most of this savanna land has been incorporated into the airport.

Piarco, which is located south of Trincity

Trincity

Trincity is a planned community in northern Trinidad. It is located along the East-West Corridor south of Tunapuna and north of Piarco.Trincity was developed by Home Construction Limited, now a subsidiary of CL Financial, one of the largest conglomerates in the Caribbean...

 and Tunapuna

Tunapuna

-Town:It is located between St. Augustine, Tacarigua and Trincity. Tunapuna is the largest town between San Juan and Arima. It is an important market and commercial centre, and is the seat of the Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation...

, is administered by the Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation

Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation

Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation is a local government body in Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of nine Regional Corporations in Trinidad which replaced the system of Counties as local government bodies in 1992. It is the largest by population of all the Regional Corporations. It contains the...

.

Caribbean Airlines

Caribbean Airlines

Caribbean Airlines Limited operating as Caribbean Airlines is the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago. The airline is also flag carrier to Jamaica through its subsidiary, Caribbean Airlines-Air Jamaica Transition Limited or Air Jamaica....

 has its headquarters in Piarco. Prior to the establishment of Caribbean Airlines, BWIA West Indies Airways

BWIA West Indies Airways

BWIA West Indies Airways Limited, known locally as "B-wee", was the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago. BWIA was, at the end of its operations, the largest airline operating out of the Caribbean, operating direct services to the USA, Canada, and the UK...

 was headquartered on the airport property in Piarco.

The Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago

Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago

The Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago is a government airport management agency of Trinidad and Tobago headquartered in the Airports Administration Centre in the South Terminal of Piarco International Airport in Piarco, Tunapuna-Piarco, Trinidad. The AATT manages the Piarco International...

has its headquarters in the Airports Administration Centre, in the South Terminal of the airport.