Eternal Lightning in Venezuela

Catatumbo a mysterious lightning is a natural phenomenon unique in the world. Located at the mouth of the river at Lake Maracaibo Catatumbo. This phenomenon is a cloud lightning that forms a "line" along the 5 kilometer lightning, every 140-160 nights a year, for 10 hours each night, and more than 280 times in 1 hour. It almost could be called 'permanent storm'. Lightning has the intensity of 400,000 amperes, and visible up to 400 km away. According to research, lightning is due to the collision the wind that comes from the Andes Mountains. Lightning was also used as navigation by sailors.