1. Maracaibo - Noun
2. Maracaibo - Proper noun
a port city in northwestern Venezuela; a major oil center
Source: WordNetFurthermore, much of the Spanish Main had simply been exhausted; Maracaibo alone had been sacked three times between 1667 and 1678, Cawthorne, p. 34, 36, 58 while Río de la Hacha had been raided five times and Tolú eight. Source: Internet
The western city of Maracaibo used to be Venezuela's affluent oil capital. Source: Internet
On the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, in the territory of La Familia Meleán, I turned off the highway at a Halliburton oil-treatment plant. Source: Internet
Now, Hugo Chavez, the Communist dictator of Venezuela, in a speech given in Maracaibo last Saturday night said "Obama is a good guy". Source: Internet
MARACAIBO, Venezuela — Authorities have found one of the flight data recorders from a Colombian airliner that crashed in western Venezuela Tuesday, killing all 160 passengers and crew. Source: Internet
They anchored across the access channel to Lake Maracaibo, heart of the oil industry, partially blocking the sea-lane. Source: Internet