At the end of the fourteenth century it began to attract attention, a great luminosity that was repeated incessantly, with a frequency of 260 episodes in the lake of Maracaibo, becoming a very striking phenomenon and curious for the inhabitants of the area and little by little It became a natural and impressive phenomenon and was baptized as: the Catatumbo Lightnings.

The most successful is to name it as Catatumbo lightning, this is because this meteorological phenomenon tends to occur in different places every night and occur in the southern basin of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, when sighting the far away they look as if It was a single phenomenon. Which is why they call it the Catatumbo lightning bolt. This event makes it one of the 5 best known natural phenomena worldwide.

Many studies have been conducted, since the phenomenon is known, there have been many investigations that have been made from different areas looking for the root that produces this event, so there are many hypotheses, the most successful seems to be, by Melchor Centeno , who attributes it to electrical storms to the closed circulation of winds in the region.

There are many stories that have been written, narrated, sung and staged about Catatumbo's lightning, from the Indians, who some thought were thousands of fireflies who gather to pay tribute to the fathers of creation, it is also considered as the presence of the fallen guajiro spirits that shine like a message and consider it the eternal radiance in the heights.

As we can read Venezuela has a long history in what concerns the area of ​​tourism as we can find tourist attractions and curiosities watered by the length and breadth of our country. So the Catatumbo: it's a fascinating place, which NASA declared as the world capital of lightning, is also in the famous book of Guinness World Records since 2014, having the highest global average of lightning per square kilometer per year ,

The Catatumbo Lightning, also declared a Natural Heritage of Zulia - since September 27, 2005 - and its maximum splendor can be seen between the months of April and November. It is unique in the world, offers a charm for the eyes of its own and visitors who can admire it at a distance.

You receive an invitation from all this Venezuelan people to know these beauties that were created as treasures anchored in our country for the enjoyment of these landscapes and natural phenomena. Venezuela kind land of giant tourism and incomparable human warmth.

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