Maracaibo
About 1.6 million people.
Maracaibo is Venezuela's second-largest city and sits beside a huge lake near the Caribbean Sea. It is famous for warm weather, oil, and friendly, lively people.
Walk across the giant lake bridge, listen to cheerful gaita music, and see the Catatumbo lightning that flashes almost every night over the lake.
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Nature
Nearby Lake Maracaibo hosts the Catatumbo lightning, a natural light show where lightning flashes hundreds of times a night, one of the most electric places on Earth.
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Music
Maracaibo is the home of gaita, a happy, drum-filled style of music that families sing and dance to, especially around Christmas time.