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Catatumbo lightning: Bolts that could illuminate all of South America

Throughout the planet there are certain spectacular natural phenomena worth witnessing once in a lifetime: the northern lights of the polar areas, halos, iridescent clouds... But there is one that probably far exceeds them all, and we would not like to be caught by surprise by it. We talk about the lightning of Catatumbo.

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It occurs around the Lake Maracaibo basin in Venezuela and the orography of the place is key to the formation of electrical discharges due to the proximity between the Caribbean Sea and the mountain ranges of the area.