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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]
It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over a bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake. [4] The phenomenon sees the highest density of lightning in the world, at 250 per km 2. [5] In summers, the phenomenon may even occur as dry lightning without rainfall. [6]
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) Source: Lake_Maracaibo_map-fr.svg; Author: derivative work: r@ge (talk) actual version:Milenioscuro; Lake_Maracaibo_map-fr.svg: Kimdime69
Maracaibo is nicknamed "The Beloved Land of the Sun" (Spanish: La Tierra del Sol Amada). Maracaibo is considered the economic center of western Venezuela, owing to the petroleum industry that developed in the shores of Lake Maracaibo. It is sometimes known as "The First City of Venezuela", for being the first city in Venezuela to adopt various ...
A 1656 map called it Karegnondi. ... Lake Huron is 750 feet deep — say, about 750 Subway sandwiches below sea level. ... Canada's Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron is the largest freshwater island ...
Between this block and Lake Maracaibo there is another block on land with elevations of 100–300 metres (330–980 ft). On the east side of the lake there are blocks of moist forest on the 1,900 metres (6,200 ft) Cerro Cerrón and on a hill reaching 1,578 metres (5,177 ft) in the northern foothills of the Cordillera de Mérida .