Ciudad Ojeda

Venezuela

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Ciudad Ojeda, city, Zulia estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. Lying on the northeastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, Ciudad Ojeda is an important oil centre.

Just to the south of Ciudad Ojeda lies the Lagunillas oil field, the largest in Latin America. From derricks on land and in the water, oil is piped to refineries at Cabimas, approximately 20 miles (32 km) to the north, and on the Península de Paraguaná. Ciudad Ojeda is linked by highway to other oil centres on the lake shore and to Maracaibo, the state capital and the nation’s second largest city, 40 miles (65 km) to the northwest across the lake. Pop. (2001) 124,257; (2011) 138,208.

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