Maracaibo
Speech parts
1. Maracaibo - Noun
2. Maracaibo - Proper noun
Meaning
a port city in northwestern Venezuela; a major oil center
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Phrases with the word
Examples
Furthermore, 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.
The western city of Maracaibo used to be Venezuela's affluent oil capital.
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.
Now, Hugo Chavez, the Communist dictator of Venezuela, in a speech given in Maracaibo last Saturday night said "Obama is a good guy".
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.
They anchored across the access channel to Lake Maracaibo, heart of the oil industry, partially blocking the sea-lane.