Interesting facts about waterfalls
Waterfalls are grouped into ten broad classes based on the average volume of water present on the fall using a logarithmic scale.
Types of waterfalls: block, cascade, cataract, fan, horsetail, plunge, punchbowl, segmented, tiered,multi-step.
Cascata delle Marmore in Italy is the tallest man-made waterfall in the world.
The tallest waterfall in the world is the Angel Falls. It is 979 meters high.
The highest waterfall in Africa is the Tugela Falls at 947 metres. It is found in South Africa.
Europe’s highest waterfall, Utigard in Norway, is 800 metres high.
Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in the world and is more than a mile long.
Tugela Falls is the world’s second tallest at 947 m (3110 ft) in KwaZulu-Natal province, Republic of South Africa.
The Victoria falls is 1 708 meters wide, making it the largest curtain of water in the world. It drops between 90m and 107m into the Zambezi Gorge and an average of 550,000 cubic metres of water plummet over the edge every minute.