The spectacle of falling water is one of the most fascinating natural phenomena. And the higher the waterfall, the more picturesque it usually looks. When asked which of the world's waterfalls is the highest, it is difficult to answer unequivocally, since the difference between them is in a few meters. Therefore, we offer to your attention the ten largest waterfalls on our planet.
The 10 highest waterfalls in the world
- Angel in Venezuela (height 979 m) - more details about it will be discussed below.
- Tugela in South Africa (948 m) - according to statistics, the highest in Africa, and it consists of five cascades.
- The Three Sisters Waterfall, located in Peru, is named so because it has three cascades, falling from a stunning height of 914 m.
- Oleupen in the USA in Hawaii is called a belt because of the relatively small volume of water, but it is over 900 m in height. Olupena is surrounded on all sides by rocks and is very difficult to access, it is possible to appreciate the beauty of this waterfall only from the air.
- Yumbilla in Peru (895 m) has several levels, which makes it quite unusual.
- Winnufossen in Norway (860 m) is called the highest waterfall in Europe.
- Balayfossen, here in Norway (850 m) - the second highest European waterfall, and its width is only 6 m.
- Puukaoku in the US (840 m high), just like Angel, can be seen only from above.
- James Bruce (its height is 840 m) - the highest waterfall in Canada, named after the discoverer.
- And finishes this top ten Brown Falls, which is in the National Park called Fjordland, in New Zealand (836 m). He eats from a high mountain lake in the heart of the tropics.
An interesting fact is that Zeigalan in North Ossetia (about 600 m) is the highest waterfall in Russia. Now you know where are the highest waterfalls in different parts of the world.
Angel Falls - the highest in the world
This highest waterfall in the world is located in Venezuela, near the Guiana Plateau. He was named Angel in honor of the pilot named James Angel (in Spanish, his surname sounds like Angel, which means "angel"). It was he who became the discoverer of the waterfall, and thanks to his name Angel is sometimes called the waterfall of angels.
Angel for a long time was very little known, since it is located in a place very inconvenient for tourist trips. On the one hand, to the highest waterfall in the world, wild, impenetrable jungle - tropical jungle, and on the other - steeply breaking rocks of the mountain massif more than 2500 meters high. The pilot Angel made his discovery in 1935, and quite by accident. He flew over the river Carrao, seeking to find a deposit of gold ore, when the wheel of his monoplane broke just above the marshy jungle at the very top of the plateau. As a result, Angel had to make an emergency landing, and after - on foot to descend from the mountain for a long 11 days. Returning, the pilot immediately reported his grand opening to the National Geographic Society, and since then the highest waterfall of the planet bears his name.
A little earlier, in 1910, Sanchez Cruz, a famous researcher, became interested in this natural phenomenon. However, due to an unfortunate coincidence, he could not declare this to the whole world, and officially the opening of the waterfall belongs to Angel.
As for the height of the highest waterfall in South America, it is almost a kilometer, or more precisely, 979 meters. Falling from such a huge distance, the water flow is partially transformed into the smallest water dust. Such a fog can be seen a few kilometers from Angel.
Of course, Angel is not such a picturesque waterfall as, say, Victoria or Niagara , but here too there is something to see - for example, here is such an unusual kind of falling water from above.
