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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.