The local government body is Penal–Debe Regional Corporation, a Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago.

The region has a land area of 246.91 km².

Urban areas within Penal–Debe include Penal, where the corporation is headquartered, and Debe.

The region is noted as a heartland of Indo-Trinidadian culture with Indians making up the vast majority of the region at 71% and the largest religion in the region being Hinduism at 43%.

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