Catatumbo lightning is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs in the lake basin of Maracaibo in Venezuela, this phenomenon is characterized by the appearance of a series of lightning almost continuously and virtually silent for the large distances needed to observe the phenomenon, which occurs in clouds of great vertical development forming electric shocks between 1 and almost 4 kilometers in height.

This enigmatic natural lighthouse holds the international recognition Guinness World Records since 2014, having the highest global average of lightning per square kilometer per year, with a capacity to produce 1 million 176 thousand beams per year.