Lake Maracaibo
About Lake Maracaibo
Lake Maracaibo is located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida. While Maracaibo is commonly referred to as a lake, its current hydrological characteristics may better classify it as an estuary and/or semi-enclosed bay connected to the Gulf of Venezuela. 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.
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The Lake Maracaibo one in Western Venezuela has an everlasting storm which is there about 260 nights a year. It's at a point where a river empties into the lake, and sailors have used it for centuries to navigate, because you can see it from 200 miles away.
from 545: No Such Thing As Lightning At Sea, 2024-08-22 at 00:03:29 · read transcript
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In spite of the fact, this is almost completely unlike the North London area known as Little Venice. It's not even like Venice either, really. No, but they will have named it when they arrived at the Gulf of Maracaibo, whatever it's called. Exactly, Lake Maracaibo, yeah. I just thought there's water here. There's water in Venice. A dog's wet That's exactly right though It was Amerigo Vespucci Who is America named after him Or do we think it's not Well QI thinks it's not I think it is I think it is as well Okay But when he got there Whatever the rights and wrongs Of that particular story He saw indigenous stilt houses Which were designed to avoid floods And a guy in a gondola Yeah And a cornetto Is that what they have?
No Such Thing As A Weasel's Fridge, 2017-03-31 · listen
Oh, I didn't know that. In spite of the fact that this is almost completely unlike the North London area known as Little Venice. It's not even like Venice either, really. No, but they will have named it when they arrived at the Gulf of Maracaibo or whatever it's called. Exactly, Lake Maracaibo, yeah. I just thought there's water here. There's water in Venice. It's a dog's wet. That's exactly right though.
158: No Such Thing As A Weasel's Fridge, 2017-03-31 · listen
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