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The "Relámpago del Catatumbo" or "Faros del Catatumbo" (Catatumbo lightning) is a phenomenon that occurs over the marshlands at the Lake Maracaibo mouth of the river, where lightning storms occur for about 10 hours a night, 140 to 160 nights a year, for a total of about 1.2 million lightning discharges per year.
The Catatumbo River is a fast flowing river, originating as the confluence of the Peralonso, Sardinata and Zulia Rivers in the central valley of Norte de Santander. The upper part of the river is sourced from the highlands near the Macho Rucio Peak ("gray mule peak"), located in the south of Ocaña province. Its mouth is at Lake Maracaibo in ...
Catatumbo lightning at night. Catatumbo lightning (Spanish: Relámpago del Catatumbo) [1] is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Catatumbo means "House of Thunder" in the language of the Bari people. [2]
Río de Oro has its source on the eastern slope of the serranía de Los Motilones, in the Catatumbo Barí Natural Park (extreme north of the Norte de Santander Department of Colombia). It then flows eastward following the Venezuelan border, [1] going to Venezuela then join the Catatumbo River [2] in the state of Zulia.
Lake Maracaibo and the Catatumbo River are the main traffic lines for the transportation of commodities in the nearby area, [8] [12] and the city of Maracaibo is the transshipment center of coffee produced in the Andes. [15]
The Catatumbo region is a region of Colombia. It is located in the northeast of the department of Norte de Santander and a small part in the southwest of the department of Cesar , which extends between the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Lake Maracaibo , which is why the region has come to be considered "transborder". [ 1 ]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Catatumbo River; Caucagua River; Caura River (Venezuela) Chama River (Venezuela) Chiviripa ...
Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted The Amazon River drainage basin; with the Casiquiare River, a distributary of the Orinoco River flowing southward into the Negro River, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.