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Lake Maracaibo (Spanish: Lago de Maracaibo) is located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida. While Maracaibo is commonly referred to as a lake, its current hydrological characteristics may better classify it as estuary and/or semi-enclosed bay connected to the Gulf of Venezuela .
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]
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 ...
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).
In the Maracaibo Lake basin, 21 major sub-basins have been identified, some of which go beyond the political-territorial limits of the State of Zulia. The most important basin is that of the Catatumbo River, with a surface of 25,708.36 km 2 and represents more than a quarter (32.60%) of the total area of Maracaibo Lake Basin.
1.3.1 Lake Maracaibo. 1.4 Lake Valencia. 2 See also. 3 References. ... Mapas de Venezuela (in Spanish) This page was last edited on 12 December 2022, at 16:40 (UTC) ...
Caquetío are natives of northwestern Venezuela, [1] living along the shores of Lake Maracaibo at the time of the Spanish conquest. They moved inland to avoid enslavement by the Spaniards, while their numbers were drastically affected by colonial warfare, as were their neighbours, the Quiriquire and the Jirajara.