Arima

Arima
Borough
The Royal Chartered Borough of Arima
The Dial in the Central Business District
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Coordinates: 10°38′N 61°17′W / 10.633°N 61.283°W / 10.633; -61.283
Country	Trinidad and Tobago
Jurisdiction	The Royal Chartered Borough of Arima
Settled	1757
Borough	1 August 1888
Named for	The Arawak word for "water".
Government
• Body	Arima Borough Corporation
• Mayor	Cagney Casimire, PNM
• Deputy Mayor	Vacant
Borough Corporation seats	7 electoral districts
House seats	1/41
Area
• Borough	12 km2 (5 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	68 m (223 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Borough	33,606
• Rank	4th
• Density	2,801/km2 (7,250/sq mi)
• Urban	65,623
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
Postal Code	30xxxx, 36xxxx[2]
Area code	868
ISO 3166 code	TT-ARI
Telephone Exchange	664, 667
HDI The HDI for Trinidad and Tobago is 0.814, which gives the country a rank of 19th out of 177 countries with data (2007/2008) – high

Arima, officially The Royal Chartered Borough of Arima is the easternmost and second largest in area of the three boroughs of Trinidad and Tobago. It is geographically adjacent to Sangre Grande and Arouca at the south central foothills of the Northern Range. To the south is the Caroni–Arena Dam. Coterminous with Town of Arima since 1888, the borough of Arima is the fourth-largest municipality in population in the country (after Port of Spain, Chaguanas and San Fernando). The census estimated it had 33,606 residents in 2011.^[3]

In 1887, the town petitioned Queen Victoria for municipal status as part of the celebration for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. This was granted in the following year, and Arima became a Royal Borough on 1 August 1888. Historically the third-largest town of Trinidad and Tobago, Arima is fourth since Chaguanas became the largest town in the country.