The Everlasting Storm in Venezuela creates the world’s most intense lightning show. With over 1 million strikes yearly, it ...

Earth has some seriously wild natural phenomena that most people never get to see up close. Take the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, where lightning storms rage almost every night, flashing across ...

Imagine a storm that never seems to end, with lightning flashing up to 280 times per hour. This is the Catatumbo Lightning, a phenomenon that occurs over the Catatumbo River in Venezuela. The ...

Another unique feature of Lake Maracaibo is "Catatumbo Lighting", an atmospheric phenomenon characterised by almost continuous lightning that occurs where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.

It is crossed by numerous rivers, streams and streams that give it a great water supply and the Catatumbo River that gives it its name, which runs throughout the subregion, from its source in the ...

Hector Julio Franco, 71, who fled northeast Colombia amid fighting between two rebel groups, in Tibú, Colombia, Jan. 22, 2025. After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old ...

In a post on social media platform X, Petro called the joint offensive a “military counternarcotics operation.” We seek collaboration between armies in the fight against the ELN. A border without ...

Understanding Catatumbo: a region in conflict Catatumbo is a region situated in the northeastern part of the North Santander department of Colombia and encompasses the municipalities of Ocaña, El ...

Colombia and Venezuela share a 2,219-kilometer border, about 375 kilometers of which are in the Catatumbo region, a poor, mountainous area with a limited presence of state authorities, where armed ...

TRES BOCAS, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new wave of violence in Colombia’s Catatumbo ...

Residents cross a river to Venezuela from Colombia’s Tibu, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, following guerrilla attacks that killed dozens and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Catatumbo region.

Catatumbo Lightning, or “Relámpago del Catatumbo” in Spanish, is a spectacular atmospheric phenomenon occurring at the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it flows into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.