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Lake Maracaibo
Lake Maracaibo is a large brackish tidal bay, usually called a lake, in north-western Venezuela, joined to the Gulf of Venezuela by a narrow strait. The basin beneath it holds some of the world's largest oil deposits; the blowout of the Barroso II well at Cabimas in 1922 revealed their scale and made Venezuela a leading oil producer. The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, opened in 1962, crosses its outlet.
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