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Lake Maracaibo is rich in oil and gas resources and is known as the "oil lake". [6] The first Spaniards who arrived used tar seeping from the lake to fill ship cracks. [ 11 ] The Maracaibo oil field was discovered in 1914, [ 15 ] the first oil well was constructed in 1917, and large-scale exploitation began in 1922. [ 6 ]
The Maracaibo Basin, also known as Lake Maracaibo natural region, Lake Maracaibo depression or Lake Maracaibo Lowlands, is a foreland basin and one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela, found in the northwestern corner of Venezuela in South America. Covering over 36,657 square km, it is a hydrocarbon-rich region that has produced over 30 ...
Lake Maracaibo occupies the central 13,500 square kilometers of the Maracaibo lowlands. [2] The low swampy shores of the lake and areas beneath the lake itself hold most of Venezuela's rich petroleum deposits. [2] The lake is shallow, with an average depth of ten meters, and separated from the Caribbean by a series of islands and sandbars. [2]
Toas island is located 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) to the south of San Carlos peninsula (western section of Maracaibo Lake sand-bar), and 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) east of San Rafael del Moján, a small town on the west coast of the lake. Toas island has a surface area of 3 square kilometres (1 square mile).
Vectorised map of the Area of Maracaibo lake, with Guajira and Paraguana peninsulas, and Netherlands Antilles in spanish language. Date: 20 November 2008, 00:12 (UTC)
Maracaibo is one of the hottest cities in Venezuela and all of South America as well. The rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta gives the city a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh) [16] Attenuated only by the moderating influence of the lake; Maracaibo's average historical temperature is 29 °C (84.2 °F). In the past, the climate of ...
Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes but bests its cousins in several other ways. Find out more about all the Great Lakes.
A 54 km (34 mi) strait connects it with Maracaibo Lake to the south. [1] Location. The Gulf is located in the north of South America, ...