Carapichaima had been a sugar producing village that expanded after the railroad opened up central Trinidad to development and population movements.

Major structural changes occurred in the past few years when the main sugar producing, state owned company, Caroni 1975 Ltd., was closed in 2003.

Among some of the major problems plaguing this community is increasing crime rates and difficulty coping with the previously mentioned structural changes.

Situated on the temple ground is the tallest (85 feet) Lord Hanuman statue in the Western Hemisphere completed in 2001.

This was originally built to educate the rural East Indians who lived and formed the workforce of the sugar plantations that encompassed the region at that time.