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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He also raided the coastline of Venezuela around the Lake Maracaibo.

同时他也抢劫了马拉开波湖附近委内瑞拉的海岸线。

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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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Guamanchi and Assari tours to Lake Maracaibo are best arranged during rainy season between May and December, when electrical activity is at its peak.

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After a late-afternoon swim in Lake Maracaibo to cool off from the sweltering heat, we got our first glimpse of towering clouds amid the glow of the setting sun.

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Meteorologists have yet to definitively explain why Catatumbo produces the most persistent electrical storms on the planet, but the most widely accepted theory is that trade winds from the Caribbean blow warm air over brackish Lake Maracaibo before hitting cool air from the Andes.

BBC: In Venezuela, nature��s most electrifying lightning show