Zulian Region, Venezuela

[1] The name of the region refers to the Zulia River, which runs through Colombian lands under the name of Batatas and flows into the Catatumbo River, but there is no consensus on the origin of the word Zulia.

The territory of Zulia was sighted in 1499 by an expedition commanded by Alonso de Ojeda.

By 1786, this covered the territories of Zulia, Apure, Barinas, Táchira, Mérida and Trujillo.

When the Great Colombian Union disappeared in 1830, Maracaibo became one of the 11 (eleven) Provinces of Venezuela.

It is located in the extreme northwest and is bordered to the north by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Falcon, Lara and Trujillo, to the southeast by Mérida, to the south by Tachira and to the west, from the Guajira Peninsula to the mountains of Perijá, with the sister country of Colombia.