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 ...

Located in northwest Venezuela along part of the Andes Mountains, ... an atmospheric phenomenon characterised by almost continuous lightning that occurs where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.

In this article I invite you to the subregion of “Catatumbo”, from the amazement and fatigue in the face of the conflict that does not cease but also to the hope and commitment for a necessary but so ...

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 ...

Catatumbo is a region situated in the northeastern part of the North Santander department of Colombia and encompasses the municipalities of Ocaña, El Carmen, Convención, Teorama, San Calixto, Hacarí, ...

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 ...

On Friday Petro suspended negotiations with the rebels after violence escalated in Catatumbo, a mountainous region that produces around 15% of Colombia’s coca crop and is located along the border with ...

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.

In a remote part of Venezuela the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo. It's a stunning location, but also home to a unique meteorological phenomenon and a storm chaser's dream - the Catatumbo ...