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Zulia StateEstado Zulia is one of Venezuela's 23 states (estados). The state capital is Maracaibo. The state covers a total surface area of 63,100 km² and, in 1997, had an estimated population of 2,974,240. It is located in the northwestern part of the country. Geography Lake Maracaibo, the largest lake in South America, lies within Zulia. The Lake Maracaibo Basin covers one of the largest oil and gas reserves in this hemisphere, bringing enormous wealth to the country. A long and mostly uninhabited border separates Venezuela from Colombia to the north and west from the Guajira Peninsula to the mountains of Perija. Venezuela's Andean states of Tachira, Mrida and Trujillo border Zulia State at the Southern end of Lake Maracaibo and finally the states of Lara and Falcn complete the boundaries of Zulia. The name Venezuela also comes from the Lake Maracaibo area. Spanish Conquistadors sailing into this area found the indigenous peoples living in communities of huts supported by stilts along the shores of the Lake over 500 years ago and promptly named this new territory "little Venice" or Venezuela. Municipalities - Almirante Padilla (El Toro)
- Baralt (San Timoteo)
- Cabimas (Cabimas)
- Catatumbo (Encontrados)
- Coln (San Carlos del Zulia)
- Francisco Javier Pulgar (Pueblo Nuevo (El Chivo))
- Jess Enrique Lossada (La Concepcin)
- Jess Mara Semprn (Casigua el Cubo)
- La Caada de Urdaneta (Concepcin)
- Lagunillas (Ciudad Ojeda)
- Machiques de Perij (Machiques)
- Mara (San Rafael del Mojn)
- Maracaibo (Maracaibo)
- Miranda (Los Puertos de Altagracia)
- Pez (Sinamaica)
- Rosario de Perij (La Villa del Rosario)
- San Francisco (San Francisco)
- Santa Rita (Santa Rita)
- Simn Bolvar (Ta Juana)
- Sucre (Bobures)
- Valmore Rodrguez (Bachaquero)
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