Costa Oriental del Lago de Maracaibo (in English Eastern Coast of Maracaibo Lake) is a metropolitan area and subregion, that includes seven municipalities of Zulia state. It is the main traditional area of the oil industry in Zulia and where most oilfield operations are based. It's bordered to the west by Lake Maracaibo, the east with the states of Falcón and Lara, the north with the Gulf of Venezuela, and the south with Trujillo state. The "COL" conurbation has 758,957 inhabitants, while the "COL" as a subregion has 910,752 inhabitants.
Cities
It is a densely populated area covering approximately one third of the population of Zulia state (almost one million), with 2 large cities and numerous towns and villages. The principal cities of the area are:
Satellite image of the Costa Oriental del Lago and its conurbations at night. The limits of it in green, the conurbation in hot-pink and principal cities in red.
^La ciudad de Cabimas ocupa todas las parroquias con excepción de Arístides Calvani que es el área rural y Punta Gorda ocupada por el pueblo de Punta Gorda.
^Population of the parishes Alonso Ojeda and Libertad
^Population of the parishes Libertador, Pueblo Nuevo and Marcelino Briceño
