Couva

COUVA
Couva is located in the south of Caroni County in central Trinidad. It is one of the oldest sugar villages. It is sugar that brought Couva to prominence.
Sugar was not the first crop but cotton, but this was in the Spanish era where the settlement we now know today did not exist. The first British map of Trinidad (1797) was the only suggestion of such the name of a river in the area called: "Rio de Cuba". Since the Spanish "B" is often sounded as "V", the river was called "Rio de Couva," and later "Couva River".