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Catatumbo Lightning

Catatumbo Lightning
Fernando Flores, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
9.3398°N, 71.7063°WOPEN YEAR-ROUND

The mouth of the Catatumbo River where it meets Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela — the place on Earth with the highest lightning-strike frequency, flashing on 140–160 nights a year.

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