El Tafkin Maracaibo ita ce mafi girman halayyar halitta Jihar Zulia tare da cikakken fadada 13.000 km2. Yana daya daga cikin manyan tabkuna 23 a duniya.
Kuma yawan zirga-zirgar ababen hawa da jigilar kayayyaki da aka aiko ta cikin ruwanta ya fi girma a kowane tafki a Venezuela, wanda ke ba da rai ga masana'antar sufuri da masana'antar kasuwanci ta Jihar Zulia.
Gadar Janar Rafael Urdaneta akan Tafkin Maracaibo ya danganta yankin gabas da sauran ƙasar. Yana da aikin injiniya wanda aka gina a kankare. Gininsa ya ɗauki shekaru biyar a kan kuɗin Bs. Miliyan 350. (dala miliyan 100 don zaɓar ginin) tare da tsawon 8.678 m. (Kilomita 8,6. Kimanin.) Wannan ya haɗu da Maracaibo zuwa Puerto Palmarejo, a gabar gabas.
Ya kamata a lura cewa har yanzu akwai wasu ƙauyuka a Tafkin Maracaibo. Wannan haka lamarin yake Santa Rosa, garin da aka gina a kan "palafitos" (bukkoki da aka gina a cikin ruwan tabki) inda akwai cunkoson kwale-kwale wanda ya zama ruwan dare a wannan yankin na birnin. Wurin, wanda ke dawo da tunanin magabata na asali, ya zama kyakkyawan wurin yawon bude ido inda zaku iya dandana abinci irin na yau da kullun a cikin ruwan tafkin.
Akwai wani gari makamancin haka a cikin layin Sinamaica a arewacin jihar Zulia. Wannan ƙauyen mai ban mamaki ba kawai yana ba da nishaɗi ga masu yawon bude ido ba, har ma da kowane irin kayan aiki ga mazauna ƙauyuka kamar kayan abinci, kantin magani, shaguna da sauran hidimomin gida na yau da kullun.
Wannan baƙon gari da yake da alama ya fito daga ruwa, tare da kwale-kwalensa, al'adunsa, al'adunsa da al'adunsa wanda ya sanya Sinamaica ta zama ɗayan jan hankali da wuraren shakatawa a yankin Zulia.