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    Maracaibo (/ˌmærəˈkaɪboʊ/ MARR-ə-KY-boh, Spanish: [maɾaˈkajβo] ; Wayuu: Marakaaya) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western...
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    Lake Maracaibo (Spanish: Lago de Maracaibo) is located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida. While Maracaibo is...
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    occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Catatumbo means "House of Thunder" in the language of the...
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    Zulia (redirect from Zulia, Maracaibo)
    Mma’ipakat Suuria) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest...
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  • Esso Maracaibo may refer to: MV Esso Maracaibo, name used from 1947 to 1956 for the former USS Narraguagas (AOG-32) SS Esso Maracaibo, launched in 1959...
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  • Maracaibo is a city and municipality in the Zulia State, Venezuela. Maracaibo can also refer to: Maracaibo Basin Maracaibo Metro Maracaibo Lake Maracaibo...
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    The Maracaibo Basin, also known as Lake Maracaibo natural region, Lake Maracaibo depression or Lake Maracaibo Lowlands, is a foreland basin and one of...
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    Ojeda visited the Venezuelan coast. The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice...
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    Maracaibo is a 1958 American drama film directed by Cornel Wilde and written by Ted Sherdeman. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Francis...
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    Maracaibo Province or Maracaybo Province from 1676 to 1824 was a province of the Spanish Empire. It resulted from a merger of the former Province of Mérida...
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  • Maracaibo Province may refer to: Maracaibo Province (Spanish Empire) 1676-1824 Maracaibo Province (Gran Colombia), Gran Colombia 1824-1830 Maracaibo Province...
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    Maracaibo Province was a historical region of Venezuela that corresponds roughtly to the actual Zulia State. The eighteenth century geographer Antonio...
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  • Lake of Maracaibo may refer to: Maracaibo Lake (Bolivia) Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical...
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  • Esso Maracaibo was a tanker of the Creole Petroleum Corporation (a subsidiary of Standard Oil Corporation of New Jersey). She was the second ship of that...
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  • Gabriela Fernández (category Models from Maracaibo)
    Gabriela Alexandra Fernández Ocanto, is a pageant titleholder from Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela who competed in the Miss Venezuela 2008 pageant on...
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    Henry Morgan's raid on Lake Maracaibo, also known as the Sack of Maracaibo and the Battle of Lake Maracaibo, was a military event that took place between...
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  • The Maracaibo Open Invitational was a golf tournament in Venezuela played from 1960 to 1974. It was part of the Caribbean Tour. The event was played at...
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    The Battle of Lake Maracaibo also known as the "Naval Battle of the Lake" was fought on 24 July 1823 on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo between fleets under...
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  • Maracaibo 15 is a Venezuelan gaita band. Founded in 1974 by singer Betulio Medina in Maracaibo, the name of this group reflects the fact that it was originally...
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    The Maracaibo Metro, also known as Metro del Sol Amado, is a six-station light rail system in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Service between La Vanega and El Varillal...
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  • The Maracaibo National Prison (Sabaneta Prison) was a notoriously violent prison in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela in the state of Zulia.[not verified...
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    future nation of Venezuela, in particular by orienting the province of Maracaibo towards the province of Caracas. In 1494, despite the presence of indigenous...
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    The Maracaibo tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum viridanum), also known as the short-tailed tody-flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae,...
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  • Club Unión Atlético Maracaibo (usually called Maracaibo) was a professional club founded in 2001 and the club had one First Division title in the professional...
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    General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge (category Lake Maracaibo)
    located at the Tablazo Strait outlet of Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela. The bridge connects Maracaibo with much of the rest of the country. It is...
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  • Maracaibo Province was a province of the 1824 created Zulia Department of Gran Colombia. The capital was Maracaibo. The Zulia Department was a successor...
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    Sur del Lago de Maracaibo (often abbreviated as Sur del Lago, in English South of Maracaibo Lake) is a subregion comprising the territory of the municipalities...
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  • in 2017, when in September an alleged theft of cables left the city of Maracaibo (considered the second most important municipality in the country) and...
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    Venezuela. Related to the true lignum vitae trees (Guaiacum), it is known as Maracaibo lignum vitae or (like its relative B. sarmientoi) as "verawood". Fruits...
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    The Maracaibo dry forests (NT0222) is an ecoregion in Venezuela around Lake Maracaibo. It contains the country's main oil fields. The habitat is criss-crossed...
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