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Palouse Falls
Palouse Falls is a 198-foot waterfall on the Palouse River in southeastern Washington, made Washington's official state waterfall in 2014 and formed by the Ice Age Missoula floods.
Perolniyoc
Perolniyoc is a waterfall in the Socma community of the Ollantaytambo district, Cusco region of Peru, with the Inca-era archaeological site of Raqaypata directly above it.
Reichenbach Falls
Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfälle) are a seven-tiered, roughly 250 m waterfall above Meiringen, Switzerland, fed by Rosenlaui Glacier meltwater, served by the 1899 Reichenbachfall-Bahn funicular, and famous as Sherlock Holmes's apparent death site in Conan Doyle's 1893 "The Final Problem".
Rhine Falls
Rhine Falls (Rheinfall), waterfall on the Rhine near Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Europe's largest waterfall by volume, not height: 23 m high, 150 m wide, about 600 m³/s in summer, record 1,250 m³/s in 1965.
Shivanasamudra Falls (ಶಿವನಸಮುದ್ರ ಜಲಪಾತ)
Shivanasamudra Falls (ಶಿವನಸಮುದ್ರ ಜಲಪಾತ), twin Kaveri waterfalls Gaganachukki (90 m) and Bharachukki (69 m) in Mandya-Chamarajanagar, Karnataka, site of Asia's first major hydroelectric station, commissioned 1902 with a 147 km line to Kolar Gold Fields.
Shoshone Falls
Shoshone Falls, the Niagara of the West, is a 212-foot waterfall on the Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho, carved by the Bonneville Flood, seasonally reduced by irrigation diversions, and home to a 1907 hydroelectric plant.
Snoqualmie Falls
Snoqualmie Falls is a 270-foot waterfall on the Snoqualmie River in Snoqualmie, Washington, about 30 miles east of Seattle, drawing about 2 million visitors a year.
State-level waterfall inventories in the United States
A state-level waterfall inventory is a compiled catalog of the waterfalls of one or more U.S. states, built by federal agencies, state surveys, or volunteer projects.
Sutherland Falls
Sutherland Falls (Te Tau-tea) is a 580 m three-leap waterfall from Lake Quill to the Arthur Valley in Fiordland, New Zealand, discovered by Donald Sutherland in 1880 and visited via a side trip from the Milford Track.
Tahquamenon Falls
Tahquamenon Falls: pair of waterfalls on the Tahquamenon River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; Upper Falls over 200 feet wide, among the largest east of the Mississippi after Niagara, within Michigan's second-largest state park, dedicated 1947.
Tallest waterfalls by continent
A survey of the tallest waterfall on each continent, from Angel Falls in Venezuela to Tugela Falls in South Africa, covering their heights, definitions, and disputed measurements.
Tequendama Falls
Tequendama Falls (Salto del Tequendama) is a roughly 157-meter plunge waterfall on the Bogotá River about 30 km southwest of Bogotá, Colombia, long a major tourist attraction and later known for pollution and restoration efforts.
Tugela Falls
Tugela Falls, South African tiered waterfall on the Tugela River in the Drakensberg's Amphitheatre, KwaZulu-Natal; 948 m over five tiers, tallest drop 411 m; Africa's highest and rival to Angel Falls for world's tallest by total height.
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls, or Mosi-oa-Tunya ("the Smoke That Thunders"), is the Zambezi River waterfall on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border, the world's largest curtain of falling water at 1,708 m wide and up to 108 m deep, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1989.
Wallaman Falls
Wallaman Falls is a 268-meter single-drop waterfall on Stony Creek in Girringun National Park, 51 km south-west of Ingham, Queensland, and Australia's tallest single-drop waterfall.
Waterfall
Waterfall: a very steep, nearly vertical fall in a river course, synonymous with knickpoint. Forms on resistant caprock over softer rock, retreats by undercutting or plunge-pool drilling, and acts as a fish-migration barrier.
Waterfalls by flow rate
Waterfalls by flow rate ranks the world's waterfalls by mean annual discharge, led by Inga Falls on the Congo River at 25,768 m³/s, with Boyoma Falls first among true waterfalls.
Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park
Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park: 22 named falls on Kitchen Creek's Glen Leigh and Ganoga Glen branches, uniting at Waters Meet; tallest is 94-foot Ganoga Falls, seen via the 7.2-mile Falls Trail loop.
Waterfalls of Australia
The waterfalls of Australia are the named drops of its rivers and streams, numbering 2,885, with Wallaman Falls in Queensland the tallest single drop at 268 meters.
Waterfalls of Glacier National Park
The waterfalls of Glacier National Park in Montana number about 46 named falls, formed by Pleistocene glaciation, peaking in June and early July and frozen by November.
Waterfalls of Mexico
The Waterfalls of Mexico include Basaseachic in Chihuahua, often cited as the country's tallest, and Hierve el Agua in Oaxaca, a petrified waterfall of calcium carbonate.
Waterfalls of Oregon
Oregon is among the most waterfall-dense US states, with 1,633 inventoried falls, more than 90 clustered in the Columbia River Gorge and Multnomah Falls the most visited.
Waterfalls of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Waterfalls of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, including Raymondskill Falls, Dingmans Falls, and Silver Thread Falls, are glacial-meltwater knickpoint cascades on Pocono Plateau streams in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with access rules set by the park compendium.
Waterfalls of Washington (state)
Waterfalls of Washington (state): over 2,900 falls, more than any other US state, led by Colonial Creek Falls (about 2,568 ft) and Palouse Falls, the official state waterfall since 2014, carved by Ice Age floods.
Waterfalls of Yellowstone National Park
Waterfalls of Yellowstone National Park: over 40 named falls, led by the 308-foot Lower Falls in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, formed by rock-hardness contrasts, hydrothermal weakening, and glacial floods.
Waterfalls of Yosemite National Park
Waterfalls of Yosemite National Park: seasonal Sierra Nevada cascades including Yosemite Falls (2,425 ft, tallest measured in North America), Bridalveil Fall, and Horsetail Fall, fed by snowmelt peaking in May or June.
World's tallest waterfalls
The world's tallest waterfalls are ranked by total height and by tallest single drop; Angel Falls in Venezuela holds both records, with Tugela Falls in South Africa as challenger.