List of waterfalls
The list of waterfalls contains a selection of waterfalls on earth .
→ see also the list of the highest waterfalls on earth
Africa
Angola
- Epupa Falls → fall height approx. 40 m
- Kalandula Falls → Fall height approx. 105 m
- Ruacana Falls → fall height approx. 120 m
Ethiopia
- Baratieri Falls
- Fincha Fwafwate
- Jinbar waterfall
- Tisissat waterfalls , waterfalls in the upper reaches of the Blue Nile → fall height 42 m, width 400 m
Benin
Burkina Faso
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
Gabon
Ghana
- Fuller Falls
- Atangwen Falls
- Wli-Falls
- Boti Falls
- Akropong Falls
- Obosomase Falls
- Konkonru Falls
- Kintampo Falls
- Tsatsadu Falls
- Tagbo Falls
- Tsenku Falls
- Begoro Falls
Guinea
Cameroon
- Chutes Ekom
- Lancrenon Falls
- Lobé waterfalls , fall directly into the sea → drop height 20 m, width 100 m
Kenya
- Gura waterfalls (Gura Falls) → fall height 275 m (flow into the river Chania)
- Karuru Falls (Karuru Falls)
- Nithi Falls (Nithi Falls)
- Vivienne Falls (Vivienne Falls)
Democratic Republic of Congo
- Boyoma Falls (also Stanley Falls ) - rapids over 100 km with a height difference of 60 m with two waterfalls with a → fall height of 5 m
-
Livingstone Falls (most water-rich cataracts on earth)
- Inga Falls (main cataracts of Livingstone Falls ), impressive cataracts, but no waterfalls
- Lofoï Falls → fall height 165 m
Republic of the Congo
Lesotho
- Ketane Falls
- Maletsunyane waterfall → fall height 192 m
- Ribaneng Waterfall
- Semomkong Falls
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
- Kapichira waterfalls of the Shire River ( Lake Malawi ) → fall height approx. 80 m
Morocco
- Cascades d'Ouzoud (Middle Atlas) → fall height 110 m
Namibia
- Epupa Falls ( Kunene River in northwestern Namibia ) → fall height approx. 40 m (multi-stage)
- Popa Falls ( Okavango River in northeastern Namibia)
- Ruacana Falls → fall height 120 m
Nigeria
- Agbokine cases
- Assop cases
- Enemebia Falls
- Erin-Ijesa Falls
- Gurara Falls
- Ipole-Iloro Falls
- Kurra Falls
- Kwa Falls
- Olumirin Falls
- Owu Falls
Reunion
- Anse des Cascades
- Cascade des Aigrettes → Fall height approx. 80 m
- Cascade du Bassin Boeuf
- Cascade du Bassin la Paix
- Cascade Biberon → fall height approx. 250 m
- Cascade Blanche → Fall height approx. 640 m
- Cascade du Chaudron
- Cascade Grand-Galet
- Cascade Niagara → Fall height approx. 25 m
- Cascade Langevin → Fall height approx. 25 m
- Pisse-en-l'air → Fall height approx. 50 m
- Voile de la Mariée → Fall height approx. 500 m
- Trou de Fer → Fall height approx. 500 m
- Voile de la Mariée
Rwanda
- Rusumo Falls → fall height approx. 15 m
Zambia
- Chavuma Falls
- Chimpanzee Falls
- Chisanga Falls
- Chishimba Falls
- Chusa Falls
- Kabweluma Falls
- Kalambo Falls → fall height approx. 235 m
- Kundalila Falls
- Lumangwe Falls
- Lwitikila Falls
- Mambilima Falls
- Mumbuluma Falls
- Musonda Falls
- Mutumuna Falls
- Ngonye Falls
- Ntumbachushi Falls
- Nyambwezi Falls → fall height 20 m
- Lace falls
- Victoria Falls → fall height approx. 110 m, width 1708 m
Senegal
- Barrakunda Falls
- Dindefelo Falls → fall height approx. 100 m
Zimbabwe
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Victoria Falls , Zambia / Zimbabwe
- Martins Falls
- Mutarazi Falls → fall height 760 m (sixth highest in the world)
- Nyazengu Falls
- Tuckers Falls
- Victoria Falls → fall height 110 m, width 1708 m
Sierra Leone
South Africa
- Augrabies Falls → height of fall 56 m, width 150 m, pours into rock gorge
- Bawa Falls
- Berlin Falls
- Bridal Veil Falls
- Elands River Falls
- Howick Falls → fall height 119 m
- Karkloof Falls
- Lisbon Falls
- Macmac Falls
- Magwa Falls
- Mtihelo Falls
- Ndedema Falls
- Tugela Falls → fall height 948 m, second highest waterfall on earth
Tanzania
Chad
Uganda
- Bujagali
- Murchison Falls
- Owen Falls (flooded)
- Ripon Falls (flooded)
- Sipi Falls
Central African Republic
Asia
Afghanistan
People's Republic of China
- Huangguoshu waterfall - literally translated as "yellow fruit tree falls" in Anshun ( Guizhou Province ) → fall height 74 m, width 81 m
- Jiulongji waterfall cascade, highest → fall height 46 m
- Hukou waterfall
India
- Abby Falls near Abby Falls near Madikeri (Karnataka)
- Adyanpara Falls
- Arun
- Athirampilly Falls
- Chachai Falls
- Chunchanakatte Falls
- Dudhsagar Falls
- Duduma Falls
- Gersoppa Falls
- Godchinamalaki Falls
- Gokak Falls
- Hebbe Falls
- Hogenakkal Falls
- Irupu Falls
- Jog Falls
- Jonha Falls
- Khandadhar Falls
- Kallatti Falls
- Kiliyur Falls
- Kutralam Falls
- Lushington Falls
- Magod Falls
- Manikyandhara Falls
- Mutyalamaduvu Falls
- Shivanasamudram Falls
- Shimsha Falls
- Soochipara Falls near Kalpetta (Kerala)
- Tamdi Surla Falls
- Vazhachal Falls
Iran
- Atashgah Falls
- Bahram Beigy Waterfall
- Bisheh Falls
- Boll waterfall
- Ganjnameh waterfall
- Golestan Falls
- Lar waterfall
- Margoon waterfall
- Masoule Falls
- Semirom cases
- Shalmash Falls
- Shekarab waterfall
Japan
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The Kegon Falls in Japan
Laos
- Mekong Falls , waterfall with the greatest abundance of water in the world, cascade of rapids and waterfalls of low height → total drop height approx. 20 m
- Tat Kuang Si
- Tad Sae
East Timor
- Bandeira - near Atsabe
- Berloi , Rio Comoro in Suco Fatisi
- Fa Fa , Vero in Suco Tutuala
- Tiris Dikomali in Suco Nuno-Mogue
- Tishun at Suco Leohito
Philippines
- Maria Cristina waterfall → fall height 98 m
- Pagsanjan waterfall → fall height 90 m
Russia
- Talnikowy waterfall → fall height 482 m
Singapore
- Jurong Falls - tallest man-made waterfall in the world
Sri Lanka
-
Bambarakande Falls → fall height 241 m
(highest in the country; Sinhala: බඹර කන්ද ඇල්ල; literally translated means something like Hornet Mountain Falls ; Kande is pronounced as Kanda in English ) -
Kurundu Oya Falls → height of fall 189 m
(Sinhala: කුරුඳු ඔය ඇල්ල; named after the river of the same name: Kurundu Oya, Oya means river) -
Diyaluma Falls → drop height 171 m
(best known because it is located directly on the A4 near Koslanda ; Sinhala: දියලුම ඇල්ල
Meaning: Diya : water, (He) luma : falling, the syllable He was lost over time due to pronunciation)
Thailand
- Batscho Waterfall in Narathiwat Province
- Krathing and Changsay Waterfalls in Khao Khitchakut National Park in Chanthaburi Province
- Cheet Warin Waterfall in Narathiwat Province (Amphoe Batscho)
- Vachiratharn Waterfall on Doi Inthanon Mountain in Chiang Mai Province
Vietnam
- Suoi Bạc Waterfall (Silver Stream Waterfall) in Tam Đảo
- Detian Waterfall , on the Vietnam-China border. At a width of about 120 meters, the Guichun River plunges 60 meters down over three steps.
Cyprus
- Kaledonia Falls in the Troodos Mountains
Europe
Belgium
- Coo waterfalls (Plopsa Coo amusement park) → drop height 15 m
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
- Raysko Praskalo → Fall height 124.5 m highest in the Balkans
- Borov Kamak
- Babsko Praskalo → fall height 54 m
- Boyanski Vodopad ( Boyana Waterfall )
- Skakavitsa → fall height 70 m
Denmark
- Qorlortorsuaq (Greenland)
- Døndalen (Bornholm)
Germany
→ See also: List of waterfalls in Germany
- Allerheiligen waterfalls near Oppenau in the Black Forest → fall height approx. 60 m in 7 stages
- Amselfall in Amselgrund in Saxon Switzerland → fall height 15 m
- Enterrottacher waterfalls in the Valepp valley, Rottach-Egern
- Höllbachgspreng on the Großer Falkenstein in the Bavarian Forest → drop height 15 m
- Königsbachfall am Königssee → Fall height approx. 200 m in at least 7 steps
- Kuhflucht waterfalls near Garmisch-Partenkirchen → fall height approx. 200 m in 3 step groups
- Lechfall near Füssen in Bayr. Swabia (weir) → fall height 12 m
- Lichtenhain waterfall in Saxon Switzerland → fall height 7 m
- Luisenthaler waterfall in the Thuringian Forest
- Muglbach waterfall in the Upper Palatinate Forest
- Riesloch Falls near Bodenmais in the Bavarian Forest → fall height approx. 55 m
- Röthbachfall in Berchtesgadener Land in Upper Bavaria → fall height approx. 470 m in 3 steps (highest waterfall in Germany)
- Romkerhall waterfall in the Upper Harz Mountains → fall height 64 m
- Rottach waterfalls in the Valepp valley, Rottach-Egern
- Spitterfall in the Thuringian Forest → fall height 19 m in 3 stages (highest natural waterfall in Thuringia)
- Stuibenfall in the Oytal (Allgäu)
- Tatzelwurm (Upper Bavaria) → fall height about 90 m
- Todtnauer waterfall in the Black Forest → fall height 96 m in 4 steps
- Triberg waterfalls in the Black Forest → drop height 163 m in approx. 10 steps
- Trusetal waterfall in the Thuringian Forest → fall height 58 m
- Urach waterfall on the Swabian Alb → fall height 87 m
- Weißbach Falls near Inzell (Upper Bavaria)
Estonia
- Jägala waterfall → fall height 8.1 m
France
- Grande Cascade de Gavarnie in the Pyrenees → fall height 422 m in 2 steps
- Cascades des Anglais in Corsica
- Cascades de Gimel in the Massif Central → drop height 143 m in 4 steps
- Cascade de la Beaume in the Massif Central near Solignac-sur-Loire , Haute-Loire department → drop height 27 m
- Cascades du Hérisson in the Jura → fall height 220 m in 7 stages over a distance of almost 3 km
Finland
- Auttiköngäs → fall height 16 m
- Hepoköngäs
- Imatrankoski , rapids with a height difference of 18 m over a length of 500 m. Drained for a hydropower plant, flooded 100 times a year for 20 minutes.
- Kiutaköngäs
- Korkeakoski
Greece
- Edessa waterfalls
- Mavroneri on the Styx → fall height 200 m
Great Britain
England
- Aira Force - near Lake Ullswater in the Lake District, Cumbria
- Canonteign Falls - in Devon (artificially created)
- Cauldron Snout - in the course of the river Tees at Cow Green Reservoir , rapids → difference in altitude 60 m to 180 m river course
- Cautley Spout - highest above-ground waterfall in England, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park → fall height 198 m in 4 steps
- Gaping Gill - highest subterranean waterfall in England in Ingleborough Mountain → drop height 105 m
- Hardraw Force
- High Force - in the course of the River Tees in County Durham → drop height 21 m
- Lodore Falls - in the course of the Watendlath Beck in the Lake District → drop height 30 m
- Low Force - in the course of the River Tees in County Durham → fall height 5.5 m in 2 stages
- White Lady Waterfall - in Lydford Gorge in Devon → fall height 30 m
- Moss Force - at Newlands Pass in the Lake District
- Roughting Linn Falls in Northumberland
- Scale Force - above Crummock Water near Buttermere in the Lake District → total drop 52 m, largest step 37 m
Scotland
- Bruar Falls
- Eas a 'Chual Aluinn → fall height 200 m (highest in Great Britain)
- If of Dochart -River
- Falls of Shin -River
- Falls of Kirkaig
- Falls of the Clyde
- Gray Mare's Tail
- Hog Gill Spout
- Penton Linns
- Rhymer's Glen
- Robert's Linn
- Wolfcleuchhead
Wales
- But if
- Aberdulais Falls - drives Europe's largest water wheel at
- Dolgoch Falls
- Horseshoe Falls (Wales)
- Ffrwd Fawr
- If Melincourt
- Pwll-y-Wrach near Talgarth
- Pistyll Rhaeadr - highest in Wales → fall height 73 m in three stages
- River Mellt
- Henrhyd Waterfall
- Swallow Falls
- Ystradfelte
Ireland
- Aasleagh Falls on the Erriff River in County Mayo
- Assarnacaly in County Donegal
- Cathleen or Assaroe Falls in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- near Connor Pass in County Kerry
- Cranny Falls in County Antrim - Northern Ireland
- Ess na Laragh, in Glenariff Forest Park in Co. Antrim - Northern Ireland
- Essaranka, on Glengesh Pass in County Donegal
- Glenbarrow in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Laois
- Glenoe Falls in County Antrim - Northern Ireland
- Glencar in County Leitrim
- Kylemore Falls near the Abbey in County Galway
- Maghera Falls near Ardara in County Donegal
- Mahon Falls, in the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford
- Poulaphuca Falls in County Wicklow
- Powerscourt Waterfall in County Wicklow → drop height 120 m
- Torc Waterfall on the Owengarriff River in County Kerry
- Tourmakeady Falls in County Mayo
- Upper Sheen Falls near Kenmare in County Kerry
Iceland
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The Selfoss
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The Svartifoss in winter
- Aldeyjarfoss → fall height 20 m
- Barnafoss , ensemble of many waterfalls
- Dettifoss → fall height 45 m, width 100 m
- Dynjandi (also Fjallfoss ) → fall height approx. 100 m
- Gjáin
- Glymur - 2nd highest → fall height 196 m
- Goðafoss → fall height 12 m, width 30 m
- Gullfoss → fall height 11 m + 21 m
- Hafragilsfoss → fall height 27 m
- Háifoss → fall height 122 m
- Hengifoss → fall height 118 m
- Hjálparfoss → fall height 20 m
- Hraunfossar
- Morsárfoss - highest in the country → fall height 227 m
- Ófærufoss
- Öxarárfoss
- Selfoss → fall height 10 m
- Seljalandsfoss → fall height 66 m
- Skógafoss → fall height 60 m, width 25 m
- Svartifoss → fall height 12 m - with basalt columns
Italy
- Cascate del Serio → Fall height approx. 315 m in 3 steps
- Cascata del Toce → fall height 143 m
- Cascata delle Marmore → Fall height 165 m in 3 levels, highest level: 100 m
- Cascate del Rio Verde
- Cascate del Dardagna
- Cascata di Valbondione
- Cascata di Varone → fall height approx. 100 m
- Partschins waterfall → fall height 97 m
- Reinbach waterfalls near Sand in Taufers in South Tyrol → fall height approx. 110 m in 3 stages
Croatia
- River Plitvica → drop height 78 m ( Plitvice Lakes National Park )
Latvia
- Ventas Rumba → Fall height approx. 2 m, one of the widest waterfalls in Europe
Norway
- Espelandsfossen
- Kjosfossen
- Langfossen → fall height 612 m
- Laksfors
- Låtefossen near Odda
- Mardalsfossen
- Mongefossen
- Månafossen
- Ramnefjellsfossen
- Rjukanfossen
- Skrikjofossen
- Søndre Mardalsfoss
- Steinsdalsfossen
- Tyssestrengene
- Vettisfossen
- Vøringsfossen
Austria
- Dalfaz waterfall
- Eifersbach waterfall
- Gastein waterfall in Bad Gastein
- Gollinger waterfall (Schwarzenbergfall) near Golling an der Salzach → drop height 76 m
- Grawa waterfall
- Gratl waterfall
- Höllbachfall in the Salzkammergut
- Kesselfall in Styria
- Krimml waterfalls near Krimml in the Salzburg region → drop height 380 m
- Lassingbach (Erlauf) near Wienerbruck (Lower Austria)
- Ludwigfall near Lunz am See
- Mary's Falls
- Mirafall near Ötscher (Lower Austria)
- Myra falls
- Schleierfall near Ötscher (Lower Austria)
- Schleierfall in Tyrol
- Stromboding waterfall in Upper Austria
- Stuibenfall in the Ötztal near Niederthai
- Dead woman in Styria
- Trefflingfall
- Traunfall
- Triefen waterfall on the Urslau
- Umbalfalls
- Wildensteiner waterfall in Carinthia
Portugal
- Cascata de Agarez , Vila Real district
- Cascata da Ribeira Grande , Flores (Azores)
- Faia da Água Alta , Bragança district
- Cascata das 25 Fontes , Madeira
- Cascata da Peneda , Viana do Castelo district
- Pulo do Lobo , Beja District
- Quedas do rio Laboreiro , Viana do Castelo district
- Cascata de Agarez , Vila Real district
- Quedas de água das Fisgas do Ermelo , Vila Real district
- Frecha da Mizarela , Albergaria da Serra , Aveiro District
Romania
Sweden
- Forsakar
- Hallamölla
- Njupeskär
- Muddus waterfall in Muddus National Park
- Ristafallet
- Stalpet at Aneby
- Tännforsen
- Trollforsen
- Trollhättan Falls
Switzerland
- Engstligenfalls near Adelboden → fall height 370 m in 2 steps
- Giessbachfall near Brienz → fall height over 500 m in 14 steps
- If there is a steering wheel → fall height over 100 m
- Mürrenbachfall in Lauterbrunnen valley → fall height 750 m in 5 levels, highest fall height of one level: 417 m
- Reichenbach Falls near Meiringen in the canton of Bern → drop height 120 m, width 40 m
- Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen in the canton of the same name, waterfall with the most water in Europe → fall height 23 m, width 150 m
- Schmadribachfall in the Bernese Oberland
- Seerenbachfall near Amden → fall height 305 m (approx. 600 m in three stages)
- Staubbach Falls near Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland → height of fall 300 m
- Trümmelbach Falls in Lauterbrunnen Valley , deeply enclosed in a gorge, so that it is partially underground → drop height 140 m in 10 steps
- Waterfall on the Lenzerheide / Lai
- Batöni in the Weisstannental
- Isengrindfall in the Weisstannental → fall height 230 m
- Mattbach Falls in the Weisstannental
- Oberalp waterfall in Isenthal → drop height 150 m
Serbia
- Jelovarnik → fall height 71 m
- Ripaljka → total fall height 40 m
Slovenia
- Boka → total fall height 144 m
- Cloned
- Lhnjak ( Soča )
- Savinja, in Rinka
- Waterfall in Mostnice
- Peričnik waterfall
- Savica waterfall
- Savica waterfall → drop height 89 m in 2 stages
Ukraine
- Dsembronja waterfalls → fall height approx. 100 m in 20 steps, max. 10 m
- Jalynskyj waterfall → drop height 26 m, single-stage
- Tokivsk waterfall of the Kamyanka → drop height 6 m in several stages
- Sutschawskyj Huk → fall height 5 m
- Utschan-Su waterfall → fall height 98.5 m in two stages
Hungary
- Waterfall in Lillafüred
North America
Greenland
- Qorlortorsuaq → fall height 75 m
Jamaica
- Dunn's River Falls ( Montego Bay ) → height of fall 180 m
Canada
- Athabasca Falls - Jasper National Park , Alberta → fall height 23 m
- Bow Glacier Falls - Banff National Park , Alberta → drop height 120 m
- Bridal Veil Falls (Alberta) - Banff National Park, Alberta → drop height 370 m
- Bridal Veil Falls (British Columbia) - Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park , British Columbia → drop height 91 m
- Canadian Falls (also Horseshoe Falls) - Ontario - part of the Niagara Falls → fall height 53 m
- Churchill Falls - Newfoundland and Labrador → drop height 75 m
- Della Falls - Strathcona Provincial Park , British Columbia → drop height 440 m
- Emperor Falls - Mount Robson Provincial Park , British Columbia → fall height 46 m
- Helmcken Falls - Wells Gray Provincial Park , British Columbia → drop height 137 m
- Hunlen Falls - Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park , British Columbia → drop height 401 m
- James Bruce Falls - Princess Louisa Marine Provincial Park , British Columbia → fall height 840 m
- Kakabeka Falls - Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park , Ontario → drop height 40 m
- Montmorency Falls - Québec → drop height 83 m
- Niagara Falls - Niagara Falls → drop height 50 m
- Pissing Mare Falls - Gros Morne National Park , Newfoundland and Labrador → drop height 350 m
- Shannon Falls - near Squamish , British Columbia → drop height 220 m
- Sunwapta Falls - Jasper National Park, Alberta → Fall height 18 m
- Takakkaw Falls - Yoho National Park , British Columbia → fall height 384 m
- Twin Falls - Yoho National Park , British Columbia → fall height 180 m
- Virginia Falls - South Nahanni River , Nahanni National Park , NWT → drop height 96 m
- Wilberforce Falls - Hood River (Nunavut) , NWT (highest waterfall north of the Arctic Circle) → fall height 50 m in 2 stages
Cuba
- Salto de Soroa, Soroa → fall height 22 m
Mexico
- Cascada de Basaseachi
- Cascada de Piedra Volada
- Cataratas de Agua Azul
- Cascada de Tamul
- Misol-Ha → fall height 30 m
United States
(sorted by height)
- Yosemite Falls , Yosemite National Park , California → Fall height of 436 m and 98 m (not always a flowing water)
- Ribbon Falls , California → drop height 491 m (not always a river)
- Amicalola Falls , Amicalola Falls State Park , Georgia → drop height 222 m, cascade fall, highest fall east of the Mississippi
- Silver Strand Falls , California → fall height 175 m (not always flowing water)
- Feather Falls , California → drop height 195 m (not always a river)
- Bridalveil Falls , Yosemite National Park , California → drop height 189 m (continuous running water)
- Multnomah Falls , Oregon → drop height 189 m, two-stage 165 m + 21 m (constant flowing water)
- Nevada Fall , Yosemite National Park , California → drop height 146 m (continuous flowing water)
- 'Akaka Falls , Hawaii → drop height 135 m
- Whitewater Falls , North Carolina → drop height 125 m, cascade fall
- Dry Falls , Washington → drop height 121 m, largest known waterfall in the history of the earth
- Lower Falls , Wyoming → fall height 94 m
- Watson Falls , Oregon → drop height 83 m
- Snoqualmie Falls , Washington → fall height 82 m
- Kaaterskill Falls , New York , north of the Kaaterskill Clove → height of fall 79 m (two cascades)
- Fall Creek Falls , Tennessee → fall height 78 m
- Latourell Falls , Guy W. Talbot State Park , Oregon → drop height 75 m
- Taughannock Falls , New York → height of fall 66 m, vertical fall (constant flowing water)
- Shoshone Falls , Idaho → fall height 65 m
- Vernal Fall , Yosemite National Park , California → height of fall approx. 65 m (continuous flowing water)
- Elowah Falls , John B. Yeon State Scenic Corridor , Oregon → fall height approx. 65 m
- American Falls, New York - part of Niagara Falls → fall height of 52 m, all year round
- Tower Fall , Wyoming → fall height 40 m
- Crystal Falls, Wyoming → fall height 39 m
- Burney Falls, California - spring-fed → head 39 m, constant flow rate of 4 m³ / s
- Bridal Veil Falls, Oregon , Multnomah County - Cascade Falls , drop height 39 m
- Mooney Falls , Arizona → fall height 37 m
- Toketee Falls, Oregon → fall height 36 m (two stages )
- Upper Falls, Wyoming → fall height 33.2 m
- Noccalula Falls, Gadsden, Alabama → drop height 27 m
- Great Falls of the Passaic River , Paterson → fall height 23 m
- VerKeerderkill Falls, New York → fall height 22 m
- Cumberland Falls , Kentucky → fall height 21 m, with a full moon "moon arcs" (always a flowing body of water)
- Cohoes Falls, New York → fall height 20 m
- Indian Chimney Falls, New York → Fall height 18 m, at the Indian Chimney Farm
- Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota → 16 m head, varying river, can freeze in winter
- Fulmer Falls , Pike County (Pennsylvania) → fall height 17 m
- Tahquamenon Falls, Michigan → drop height 15 m, width 61 m
- Willamette Falls ( Willamette River ) Oregon → drop height 12.2 m, width 457.2 m, year-round river
- Saint Anthony Falls , Minnesota - the only one on the Mississippi River until it was replaced by a dam in the 19th century.
- Ramona Falls, Mt Hood Wilderness Area, Oregon
- Jonathan's Run Falls, Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania
- Ohiopyle Falls, Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania
- Cucumber Falls, Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania
- Lower Calf Creek Falls in Calf Creek Canyon , Utah
Oceania
Australia
- Barron Falls , Queensland
- Bemm River Falls , Victoria
- Boonoo Boonoo Falls , New South Wales
- Dangar Falls , New South Wales
- Govetts Leap → Fall 200 m, near Blackheath , New South Wales
- Gunlom Falls Kakadu National Park
- Hopetoun Falls at Beech Forest , Victoria
- Horizontal Falls - waterfall-like tidal currents in Talbot Bay, Western Australia
- Jim Jim Falls , Northern Territory → fall height 200 m
- MacKenzie Falls , Grampians National Park , Victoria
- Montezuma Falls
- Tin Mine Falls
- Twin Falls
- Wallaman Falls , Queensland → drop height 268 m
- Wollomombi Falls
Hawaii
- 'Akaka Falls
- Kahiwa Falls → fall height 530 m
- Kahuna Falls
- Oloʻupena Falls → fall height 900 m
- Papalaua Falls
- Rainbow Falls
- Wailua Falls
- Waipoo Falls
New Zealand
Samoa
- Togitogiga waterfalls in the Falealili district
Tahiti
South America
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View from the Argentine side of the Iguaçu (Argentina / Brazil)
Argentina / Brazil
- Iguaçu Falls → maximum height of fall 82 m, but most of the steps only → height of fall 64 m, width 2700 m
- Salto Yucumã → height of fall 15 m, width 1800 m
Brazil
- Caracol ( Cascata do Caracol ), Rio Grande do Sul, Serra Gaúcha region (southern Brazil) → fall height 131 m
- Cachoeira da Fumaça ( Chapada Diamantina , Bahia )
- Cachoeira do Itiquira, State of Goiás → Fall height 168 m
- Cascata de Sete Lagoas near Sete Lagoas , Minas Gerais → drop height 380 m
- Cachoeira do Tabuleiro → fall height 274 m
Brazil / Paraguay
- Saltos del Guairá no longer exist due to overflow. Once the most water-rich waterfall with a → fall height of 114 m
Chile
Saltos del Petrohué with the Osorno volcano
- El Saltillo
- Huilo Huilo Falls
- Salto del Itata
- Los Saltos
- Salto del Laja → fall height 35 m
- Rahue Falls
- Saltos del Petrohué
Guyana
- Kaieteur Falls → Fall height 247 m, width almost 100 m
- King Edward VIII Falls
Peru
- Cataratas las Tres Hermanas → Fall height 914 m.
- Gocta - one of the highest waterfalls in the world, discovered in 2002 and filmed for the first time in March 2006 → fall height of 771 m
- Yumbilla
Venezuela
- Salto Ángel → Fall height 979 m (highest free-falling waterfall in the world)
- Somersault Kukenan
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.world-waterfalls.com/waterfall.php?num=113
- ↑ ISBN 955-9161-31-8 (according to this source, only 5 waterfalls have been confirmed by the Survey Department of Sri Lanka).
- ↑ The Detian Waterfall ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Florian Spichtig, Christian Schwick: Mürrenbachfall. In: Waterfall.ch. Retrieved June 26, 2012 .
- ↑ spiegel.de
Web links
Commons : Waterfalls - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- World Waterfall Database (Engl.)
- Waterfalls of the world (English)