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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.