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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 ...
English: This false-colour (near-infra-red, red, green) image has been processed to emphasize details on the lake’s surface. The scene shows oil slicks (the various dark patches) in the south-eastern portion of the lake. The slicks come from leaks in the various oil production and storage platforms located on Lake Maracaibo.
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_Maracaibo_map-fr.svg: Kimdime69 This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: translated to spanish .
Lake Maracaibo, which once was at the heart of Venezuela's oil boom, has turned into a polluted wasteland, according to environmentalists. The pollution of the lake, located about 600 kilometers ...
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