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Angel Falls
Angel Falls (Salto Ángel, Kerepakupai Merú), Venezuela's 979 m waterfall on Auyán-tepui in Canaima National Park, is the world's tallest, with an 807 m single drop, named for aviator Jimmie Angel.
Athirappilly Falls (അതിരപ്പിള്ളി വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം)
Athirappilly Falls (അതിരപ്പിള്ളി വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം), the Niagara of India, is Kerala's largest waterfall: an 80-foot, 100-meter-wide cascade on the Chalakudy River in Thrissur district, famed for hornbills and a contested 163 MW dam project.
Browne Falls
Browne Falls is a multi-step cascade in Fiordland, New Zealand, dropping 836 m from Lake Browne into Doubtful Sound; often called the country's tallest waterfall, a claim disputed in favor of the free-falling 580 m Sutherland Falls.
Chitrakote Falls (चित्रकोट जलप्रपात)
Chitrakote Falls (चित्रकोट जलप्रपात), also called Chitrakot, is India's widest waterfall, a 300 m horseshoe cataract on the Indravati River in Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, about 38 km from Jagdalpur, nicknamed the Niagara of India.
Dudhsagar Falls
Dudhsagar Falls (Sea of Milk), a four-tiered ~310 m waterfall on the Mandovi River in Goa's Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary near the Karnataka border; reached via Kulem, with regulated jeep and guided-trek access.
Dunn's River Falls
Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios, St. Ann, Jamaica: a terraced travertine waterfall emptying into the Caribbean Sea, climbed in guided human chains, owned by the UDC, reopened after Hurricane Melissa in November 2025.
Eternal Flame Falls
Eternal Flame Falls (Chestnut Ridge Falls), in Shale Creek Preserve, Chestnut Ridge Park, Orchard Park, New York: a 30-foot two-tier waterfall with a methane-fed natural gas flame burning in a grotto behind it, relit by hikers when it goes out.
Gocta
Gocta (Catarata de Gocta) is a two-tiered waterfall in Peru's Amazonas region, dropping 771 meters near Cocachimba and San Pablo and becoming internationally known after 2005.
Guaíra Falls
Guaíra Falls (Sete Quedas, Saltos del Guairá) was a Paraná River waterfall on the Brazil–Paraguay border, 18 cataracts averaging 13,309 m³/s, submerged in October 1982 by the Itaipu Dam reservoir and later dynamited.
Gullfoss
Gullfoss (Golden Falls) is a two-tiered waterfall on the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland, dropping 32 meters on the Golden Circle route; protected as a nature reserve since 1979 after Sigríður Tómasdóttir's campaign against hydropower developers.
Havasu Falls
Havasu Falls (Havasuw Hagjahgeevma) is a waterfall on Havasu Creek in Havasu Canyon, on the Havasupai Indian Reservation in Arizona, known for its blue-green water and travertine pools.
Hogenakkal Falls
Hogenakkal Falls (ஒகேனக்கல் நீர்வீழ்ச்சி) is a waterfall and bathing site on the Cauvery river in Tamil Nadu, India, at the river's entry from Karnataka, known for coracle rides.
Horseshoe Falls
Horseshoe Falls, also called the Canadian Falls, is the largest of Niagara Falls' three waterfalls, carrying about 90 percent of the river's flow on the Canadian side of the border.
Huka Falls
Huka Falls, on the Waikato River near Taupō, New Zealand, is the river's largest waterfall, where the flow narrows to about 15 m and surges at roughly 220,000 litres per second; name means foam, height varies 7–11 m.
Iguazu Falls
Iguazu Falls (Cataratas del Iguazú / Cataratas do Iguaçu): about 275 cascades up to 80 m high across a 2.7 km front on the Argentina–Brazil border; UNESCO World Heritage since 1984/1986 and a New 7 Wonders of Nature site (2012).
Jog Falls (ಜೋಗ ಜಲಪಾತ)
Jog Falls (ಜೋಗ ಜಲಪಾತ), also Gerusoppa Falls or Jogada Gundi, is a 253 m plunge waterfall of the Sharavathi River in Shivamogga, Karnataka, with four cascades (Raja, Roarer, Rocket, Rani), regulated by the Linganamakki Dam.
Kaieteur Falls
Kaieteur Falls, on the Potaro River in Guyana's Kaieteur National Park, drops 226 m (741 ft) in a single plunge with up to 663 m³/s flow, the world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume; discovered in 1870 by Charles Barrington Brown.
Kakabeka Falls
Kakabeka Falls is a 40-meter waterfall on the Kaministiquia River about 29 kilometers west of Thunder Bay, Ontario, the centerpiece of a provincial park established in 1957.
Kalambo Falls
Kalambo Falls is a waterfall and archaeological site in Northern Province, Zambia, near Lake Tanganyika, where excavations since 1953 uncovered the oldest known wooden structure, at least 476,000 years old.
List of people who have gone over Niagara Falls
The list of people who have gone over Niagara Falls records descents from 1901 to 2012, beginning with Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive the plunge in a barrel.
List of waterfalls
List of waterfalls: catalogs of notable waterfalls (tallest Tugela Falls 948 m; Niagara's North American flow record), organized by continent and country, with OpenStreetMap counting 88,639 tagged falls, 52,840 unnamed.
List of waterfalls by type
Waterfall types classify falls by descent style (plunge, horsetail, cascade, segmented, block, tiered), by morphometry (Schwick and Spichtig's seven types), or by formation process such as differential erosion, glaciation, or tectonics.
List of waterfalls in India by height
List of waterfalls in India by height, also called India's tallest waterfalls ranking: Kunchikal Falls (455 m, Karnataka) is the highest, Barehipani (399 m) second, Nohkalikai (340 m) the tallest plunge; sources disagree on some figures.
Livingstone Falls
Livingstone Falls (Chutes de Livingstone) is a roughly 350-km chain of rapids and cataracts on the lower Congo River below Malebo Pool, DRC, named by Henry Morton Stanley for David Livingstone after his 1877 descent; the Inga rapids within it anchor a hydropower potential above 40 GW.
Manoa Falls Trail
Mānoa Falls Trail is a 1.6-mile easy rainforest hike in Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, Oʻahu, ending at a 150-foot waterfall; managed by Nā Ala Hele, free entry, $7 Paradise Park parking, no swimming, reopened 2021 after refurbishment.
McWay Falls
McWay Falls, also called McWay Creek Falls, is an 80-foot waterfall in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park on the Big Sur coast that drops onto a beach in McWay Cove.
Measurement and disputed heights of waterfalls
Waterfall heights are measured by conventions such as total drop or tallest single drop, and survey quality explains why references disagree by hundreds of meters.
Montmorency Falls
Montmorency Falls (chute Montmorency) is an 83 m waterfall on the Montmorency River into the St. Lawrence, 12 km from Quebec City; Quebec's highest fall, 30 m taller than Niagara, site of the 1759 Battle of Montmorency.
Multnomah Falls
Multnomah Falls is a 620-foot two-tiered waterfall on Multnomah Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, about 30 miles east of Portland and the state's tallest.
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls: three waterfalls (Horseshoe, American, Bridal Veil) on the Canada-US Niagara River between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario; 57 m Horseshoe drop, 168,000 m3/min peak flow, 1950 Treaty flow limits, hydropower, and 12,500-year erosion history.