A Guinness World Record for the place with the most lightning strikes has been awarded to an area in Venezuela that recorded 3,600 lightning bolts per hour.
The certification was handed out by Guinness Book of World Records representatives Johanna Hessling on Tuesday and it was received by Venezuelan Vice President Jorge Arreaza and Zulia Governor Francisco Arias Cardenas from the Guinness Representatives.
The natural phenomenon in the western state of Zulia is called the Catatumbo Lightning, which produces myriad electrical storms from April to November at the mouth of the Catatumbo River, southern end of Lake Maracaibo.
According to the Agencia Venezolana de Noticias, the numbers of lightning bolts are extraordinary, an estimated 18 to 60 per minute, up to 3,600 per hour and 1.2 million a year, with each flash packing enough power to light up 100 million light bulbs.
Venezuelan environmentalist, Erick Quiroga, has been monitoring the lightning for 17 years. He proposes the said phenomenon to Guinness last year.
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