A large brackish embayment in northwestern Venezuela, often described as a lake though tidally connected to the Caribbean, at the center of the country's petroleum industry since major oil discoveries in the early twentieth century. Its skies are also known for an unusually frequent and intense lightning phenomenon, the Catatumbo lightning.
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Source Lake Maracaibo (Wikipedia)
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With a surface area of 13,512 km2 (5,217 sq mi), if counted as a lake it would be the largest in South America, ahead of Lake Titicaca, as well as one of the oldest lakes on Earth, having formed 36 million years ago in the Andes Mountains.
Shaped By: Faulting, Lead and sections
It was formed 36 million years ago when the faults collapsed when the Andes were uplifted in the late Eocene.
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