This electric spot, where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela’s far northwest, is believed to be the most lightning-struck place on earth.

August 2, 2011 -- A mysterious symphony of rapid-fire lightning bolts used to create the greatest light show on Earth over the Catatumbo River in Venezuela -- until suddenly they stopped and no ...

Discover Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, the Lightning Capital of the World, with up to 233 lightning strikes per square kilometer annually. Learn about its unique geography, Catatumbo lightning phenomenon ...

The Catatumbo Lightning is the most reliable - and frequent - lightning show on earth, occurring about 300 days out of the year. Located over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, it's named for the ...

Residents of Venezuela have been treated to a light show that has been going on for thousands of years. One spot on the Catatumbo River gets, regularly, forty thousand bolts every night. The ...

For example, the Catatumbo River in South America changed course in 1982 about 6.5 miles (10.5 kilometers) inland from the point where it flows into Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo – close to its ...

The Catatumbo River in the northeast of Colombia is said to taste like blood. Bodies are found in the river every year; in the recent past many were victims of Colombia’s multisided civil war ...

One firebolt after another illuminates a stilt-house settlement where the Catatumbo river flows into Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, the lightning capital of the world.