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The Catatumbo lightning is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs in the Maracaibo Lake basin in Venezuela that produces numerous electrical storms in the Congo Mirador fishing village, belonging to the Venezuelan state of Zulia during about 6 months of each year (June-November). A thunderstorm of constant lightning that illuminates the earth and that can be observed hundreds of kilometers away.
There is not just one Flash from the Catatumbo, but several. When it occurs in groups, more or less located in different points of the Southwest of the Maracaibo Lake basin, it is correct to speak of "The Lightning" and not of the Catatumbo Lightning, The Lightning of the Catatumbo are Natural Patrimony of Zulia since September 27, 2005. In January 2014, the new world record was announced that accredits the area as the site of the planet with the highest generation of lightning per square kilometer per year on earth.
The phenomenon of the lightning of the Catatumbo electrical discharges that between one and another very few times you spend more than 5 seconds, reason why the scientists consider it the main generator of ozone of the planet the fascinating place of Venezuela that the NASA declared as the world capital of the lightnings To the year occurs in average 297 electrical storms, of which this spectacle of natural lights Catatumbo: the corner of Venezuela where 1,6 million lightnings fall per year.
The point of the state from which the phenomenon of lightning is most visible is the town of Ologá; to the point that the inhabitants of the place assure that "it is almost impossible to observe the night in its dark splendor. The Venezuelan storms generate an elevated amount of ozone resulting in 10% of the layer of our planet.
Venezuelan environmentalist Erik Quiroga believes that storms could help repair damage to the ozone layer. So far there are no scientific studies to support this hypothesis, but British physicist and television presenter Brian Cox says it is possible.
