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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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That is more than 15,000 lightning strikes in that period. NASA assures that the phenomenon could illuminate 100 million light bulbs, and 10 minutes of these lightning bolts would illuminate all of South America.