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Bowen Falls. The Bowen Falls (Māori: Hineteawa), also known as Lady Bowen Falls, is a popular tourist attraction at Milford Sound, a fiord in New Zealand. [1]The 9-kilometre (5.6 mi) long Bowen River located in Fiordland National Park supplies the waterfall with water; the Bowen River is also used to generate electricity and supply drinking water to the nearby locality also named Milford Sound.
Kaieteur Falls is one of the most powerful single-drop waterfalls [1] in the world. It is located on the Potaro River in Kaieteur National Park, central Essequibo Territory, Guyana. It is 226 metres (741 ft) high when measured from its plunge over a sandstone and conglomerate cliff to the first break. It then flows over a series of steep ...
The falls is a horseshoe-shaped, block waterfall caused by a basalt shelf in the river floor. The 40 ft (12 m) high and 1500 ft (457 m) wide falls occur 26 river miles (42 km) upstream from the Willamette's confluence with the Columbia River. Operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lock was a four lock canal and was the oldest ...
A waterfall is generally defined as a point in a river where water flows over a steep drop that is close to or directly vertical. In 2000 Mabin specified that "The horizontal distance between the positions of the lip and plunge pool should be no more than c 25% of the waterfall height."
In a rage, the deity sliced the river, creating the waterfalls and condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. [3] The first European to record the existence of the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541. It was inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013.
The lowest tier of the Krimml Waterfalls, Austria's highest waterfall. The Krimml Waterfalls (German: Krimmler Wasserfälle), with a total height of 380 metres (1,247 feet), are the highest waterfall in Austria. [1] The falls are on the Krimmler Ache river and are located near the village of Krimml in the High Tauern National Park in Salzburg ...
A section of the massive cataract that makes up these impressive falls Photo:Michael Dalton-Smith. Chutes Kongou (also called the Koungou Falls) is a massive cataract about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) wide and up to 56 metres (184 ft) tall, located in Ivindo National Park in eastern Gabon.
The Rhine Falls (German: Rheinfall [ˈʁaɪnfal] ⓘ, a singular noun) is a waterfall located in Switzerland and the most powerful waterfall in Europe. [2] [3] [1] The falls are located on the High Rhine on the border between the cantons of Schaffhausen (SH) and Zürich (ZH), between the municipalities of Neuhausen am Rheinfall (SH) and Laufen-Uhwiesen/Dachsen (ZH), next to the town of ...