Discover Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, the Lightning Capital of the World, with up to 233 lightning strikes per square kilometer ...

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MARACAIBO, Venezuela Dec 8 (Reuters) - Residents of Venezuela's northwestern Zulia state long ago became accustomed to the dark waters of Lake Maracaibo, tinted black by oil pollution.

Lake Maracaibo is a tidal bay, or inlet, of the Caribbean Sea. This area, known as the Maracaibo Basin, is bordered by two mountain ranges, the Meridas Andes to the southeast and the Sierra de ...

Boom to bust. More than a century ago, the hydrocarbon-rich Maracaibo Basin was the birthplace of a business that transformed Venezuela into one of the world’s top 10 oil producers – fueling a ...

LAKE MARACAIBO may have yielded up untold oil riches for Venezuela but this 12,870 square-kilometre inlet has paid a punishing price in terms of environmental damage, writes Gareth Chetwynd. Baked ...

Over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, a never-ending lightning storm lights up the sky. Warm, humid air from the lake collides with cold mountain winds, creating the perfect conditions for constant ...

Smelling like an oil refinery, the vast expanse of Lake Maracaibo has become polluted by its own reserves of crude as Venezuela's economic collapse has left wells and pipelines in ruin. This huge ...

One firebolt after another illuminates a stilt-house settlement where the Catatumbo river flows into Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, the lightning capital of the world.

Residents of Venezuela's northwestern Zulia state long ago became accustomed to the dark waters of Lake Maracaibo, tinted black by oil pollution. But worsening contamination has changed the lake's ...

Smelling like an oil refinery, the vast expanse of Lake Maracaibo has become polluted by its own reserves of crude as Venezuela's economic collapse has left wells and pipelines in ruin. This huge ...