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Definition of Maracaibo
1. Noun. A port city in northwestern Venezuela; a major oil center.
Group relationships: Republic Of Venezuela, Venezuela
Definition of Maracaibo
1. Proper noun. A city in the northwest of Venezuela. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maracaibo
Literary usage of Maracaibo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Venezuela, a Commercial and Industrial Handbook: A Commercial and Industrial by United States Dept. of Commerce, Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"On account of the lack of exchange facilities in the interior—the cost of transfer
of funds from a given point to Maracaibo or vice versa often being as ..."
2. Venezuela, a Commercial and Industrial Handbook: A Commercial and Industrial by United States Dept. of Commerce, Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"On account of the lack of exchange facilities in the interior—the cost of transfer
of funds from a given point to Maracaibo or vice versa often being as ..."
3. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"Hydrography—Lake Maracaibo On the rock-bound north coast there is no room for
the development of fluvial basins. Hence between the Goajira Peninsula and the ..."
4. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"-ii/-!.i , Maracaibo The British government lamented these cruel aggressions upon
people whose only offence was that of having been born Spaniards, ..."
5. Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and by Alexander Walker (1822)
"It is bounded, on the west, by Santa Marta in New Grenada; on the east, by Coro
and Venezuela; on the north, by Santa Marta and the Gulf of Maracaibo ; and ..."
6. Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in by Simón Bolívar (1828)
"... plans an expedition against Maracaibo—Vacillation in his determinations— Author
ordered on a service—Ordered to halt in an unhealthy situation—Joins the ..."
7. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"PENETRATES TO Maracaibo. His crew being refreshed and the wounded sufficiently
recovered, Ojeda made sail, and touched at the island of Curazao, which, ..."
8. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Terra-cotta, Etc. by Charles Thomas Davis (1884)
"There are a number of brick-kilns around Maracaibo for the manufacture of bricks
and tiles. Maracaibo is the capital of the sovereign State of Zulia, ..."
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