Abstract
This article presents to the international academic community the results of several years of research on the phenomenon of lightning, within the PAAS-UN research group of the National University of Colombia, specifically the so-called Catatumbo´s lightning. This meteorological phenomenon occurs from the southern area of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, to the lower basin of the Catatumbo River and beyond, in Colombia, where its name comes from. The meteorological phenomenon has a historical interest in knowing how the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt learned of his activity in his explorations at the end of the 18th century and a scientific interest because today it is known that the Catatumbo region has the greatest lightning activity in the world.
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