Oil and duckweed algae coat Lake Maracaibo, a 13, 000-square-kilometer salt lake.

面积达1万3千平方公里的马拉开波湖（Lake Maracaibo）是一个咸水湖。 湖面被石油和水藻类植物所覆盖。

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A town of northwest Venezuela on the northeast shore of Lake Maracaibo. It is a center for oil producing and refining. Population, 83,000.

马拉开波湖东北岸委内瑞拉西北的一个城镇。是石油生产和提炼的中心，人口83,000。

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Last year Mr Rosales was elected mayor of Venezuela's second biggest city, Maracaibo.

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In April 2009, he stepped down as Mayor of Maracaibo when he was charged with corruption in Venezuela and fled to Peru.

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