The Catatumbo lightning is one of the 5 best known natural phenomena in the world that occurs every night between the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo and the lower basin of the Catatumbo River, which gives the phenomenon its name. According to experts, it would be more accurate to call this phenomenon the Catatumbo lightning, since it is not just one, but multiple lightning bolts that fall almost completely in silence every night. It has been confused with just one because to correctly observe this phenomenon you have to be at a considerable distance from it, and at this distance it appears to be a single ray.