Kaieteur is the world's largest single drop waterfall. Located on the Potaro River in the Kaieteur National Park, it sits in a section of the Amazon rainforest included in the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana.
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Located on the border dividing the Argentine province of Misiones from the Brazilian state of Paraná, Iguazu Falls is the largest system of waterfalls in the world. It's taller than Niagara Falls (269 feet) and 3,000 feet wider than Victoria Falls, with a majestic beauty that can only be described as jaw-dropping.
2. Tugela Falls, South Africa. Next, we move to the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa. There lies Tugela Falls, second on the list of 10 of the world's tallest waterfalls, with a combined total drop of 948 meters (3110 feet).
Victoria Falls, the world's largest waterfall, is very tall. At 350 feet, it's as high as a 35-story building, 45 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty from pedestal to torch, and more than twice as high as Niagara Falls.
Willamette Falls is the second largest, by volume, waterfall in the United States. Created as a receding waterfall during the outflow of the Ice Age Floods this falls on the Willamette River drops 50 feet.
The Iguazu (also called Iguassu) Falls are composed of 275 separate cascades, which make it the largest broken waterfall in the world. Made up of a chain of waterfalls that are fed by the Iguazu River, this powerful phenomenon sits on the border of Argentina and Brazil.
The three tallest waterfalls in the United States are in the Hawaiian Islands. The two tallest, Olo'upena Falls and Pu'uka'oku Falls, both descend the same steep cliff into the Pacific Ocean on the north coast of the Island of Molokai.
1. Niagara Falls, New York. Not just one but three waterfalls create the magnificence that is North America's largest falls, Niagara: Horseshoe Falls, American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. They straddle the US and Canadian border formed by the Niagara River, and no matter your vantage point, they are wondrous.
The highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls barely makes contact with the cliff over which it flows. About 20 times higher than Niagara Falls, it plunges 3,212 feet (979 meters) and is about 500 feet (150 meters) wide at its base.
Its Sri Lanka with 382 waterfalls throughout the island. New ones are still being discovered which were previousely only known to locals or were hidden in the forests.
VENEZUELA: ANGEL FALLSLocals refer to this majestic beauty as Kerepakupai Vena (“waterfall of the deepest place”). At 3,212 feet, with a plunge of 2,648 feet, this is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, dropping over the edge of Auyantepui mountain in Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.