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Maracaibo

noun
1.
A port city in northwestern Venezuela; a major oil center.





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"Maracaibo" Quotes from Famous Books



... U. S. Consul at Maracaibo, sends to the State Department the following information touching the wealth of coal and petroleum ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various
... fishing is hastening the decline of fish stocks and contributing to international disputes; municipal sludge pollution off eastern US, southern Brazil, and eastern Argentina; oil pollution in Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Maracaibo, Mediterranean Sea, and North Sea; industrial waste and municipal sewage pollution in Baltic Sea, North Sea, and ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... been during some years rare. It is supposed to have been observed, at Cumana and at Caracas, that the rains were less frequently attended with thunder from the year 1792; and the total destruction of Cumana in 1797, as well as the commotions felt in 1800, 1801, and 1802, at Maracaibo, Porto Cabello, and Caracas, have not failed to be attributed to an accumulation of electricity in the interior of the earth. Persons who have lived long in New Andalusia, or in the low regions of Peru, will admit that the period ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
... had been shipped to New York, to be put upon a steamer sailing for Maracaibo, in Venezuela, and which they expected to take also. From this port they would have to make their way to the mouth of the Magdalena River by means of some smaller craft. But with virtually unlimited means to back them, the boys did not fear but that they could overcome any difficulties that might ...
— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy


Words linked to "Maracaibo" :   Venezuela, urban center, Republic of Venezuela, port, metropolis, city


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