Angel Falls
Water
The highest waterfall in the world.
Angel Falls drops 979 metres from the edge of a flat-topped mountain in the jungle of Venezuela. That is three Eiffel Towers on top of each other.
The water falls so far that in the dry season much of it turns to mist before it reaches the ground. There is no road: you get there by boat up the river, or see it from a small plane.
- high
- 979 m
- the longest single drop
- 807 m
- a pilot landed on top
- 1937
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The falls are named after Jimmie Angel, an American pilot who landed his plane on top of the mountain in 1937 and got stuck in the mud.
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The Pemón people, who live here, call the waterfall Kerepakupai Merú.
- 3
The flat-topped mountains of this region are among the oldest rocks on Earth.
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