Casino Maruma - Hotel Crowne Plaza Maruma

Casino Maruma operates in Hotel Crowne Plaza Maruma, Maracaibo's highest-category hotel establishment and one of the reference hotels of the Lake Maracaibo region. Maracaibo is Venezuela's second largest city and the capital of Zulia state, the country's most important oil-producing region and one of the most productive in South America, where most Venezuelan crude oil extraction and refinery operations are concentrated.

Maracaibo: Venezuela's oil capital and South America's largest lake

Lake Maracaibo is South America's largest body of water and one of the world's most important oil deposits, with extraction platforms that have operated since the early twentieth century and radically transformed the Venezuelan economy. Maracaibo has a strongly marked cultural identity, with the gaita zuliana as its characteristic musical expression heard especially in December and during the Feria de la Chinita, one of the country's most important religious and cultural celebrations. The city is also famous for the Catatumbo Lightning, the world's unique meteorological phenomenon producing almost permanent electrical storms over Lake Maracaibo.

Casino Maruma and the reopening in Zulia

Casino Maruma was one of three gaming establishments authorized in Zulia state under the reopening of 30 casinos by Maduro's government in August 2021, alongside Hotel Del Sur and Inter de Maracaibo. It operates under a National Commission of Casinos (CNC) license and serves both the local Maracaibo public and the important sector of oil industry and services company workers operating in the Lake region.