The largest waterfall in the world by height

in nature •  7 years ago 

1. Waterfall Angel
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The waterfall is 979 meters high and is located in the tropical forests of Venezuela. It falls off the edge of Mount Auyantepui from the Canaima National Peace.

***2. Waterfall Tugela ***
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The Tugela Waterfall is a seasonal waterfall complex located in the Drakensberg Mountains (Dragon Mountain) in KwaZulu-Natal Province, Republic of South Africa.
Tugela is composed of five distinct waterfalls, the largest of which has a height of 411 meters. The total height of the waterfall is 948 meters and has a width of only 15 meters.

3. The Three Sisters Waterfalls
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The third highest waterfall in the world is the Three Sisters Waterfalls of Peru's isolated Ayacucho region. The waterfall, also known as Cataratas las Tres Hermanas (which translates as "Waterfall of the Three Sisters"), stands at an astonishing height of 914 meters and is thus named for the three distinctive levels or steps that interrupt the water course.

4. Waterfall Olo’upena
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The fourth largest waterfall in the world, Olo'upena, is found on an isolated Hawaiian island, Molokai. On the isolated northeast shore of this island there is another waterfall, called Pu'uka'oku, which also falls into the top of the highest waterfalls.
At a height of 900 meters, Olo'upena is a stream of thin ribbon that falls on the side of one of the world's highest seaside cliffs.

5. Waterfall Yumbilla
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The Yumbilla waterfalls have recently been discovered in South America in a distant Amazon region of the Cupies district of Peru.
Peru's National Geographic Institute holds a height of 895.4 meters, and other sources claim it has a slightly lower height of 870 meters.

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Wow!!! I've always been wishing to see the largest water fall in the world. This post just make me feels like am closer

Maybe someday you'll see