Kaieteur Falls (kīət
r`), waterfall, 741 ft (226 m) high, in the Potaro River, W Guyana. It plunges over an escarpment of the Guyana Highlands. One of the most impressive falls in South America, it is included in a national park.
Kaieteur Falls
r`), waterfall, 741 ft (226 m) high, in the Potaro River, W Guyana. It plunges over an escarpment of the Guyana Highlands. One of the most impressive falls in South America, it is included in a national park.Kaieteur Falls
Cataract on the Potaro River, west-central Guyana. After a sheer drop of 741 ft (226 m), the falls pass into a gorge 5 mi (8 km) long, which descends another 81 ft (25 m). The falls are 300 to 350 ft (90 to 105 m) wide at the top and are the central feature of Kaieteur National Park (1930).
Kaieteur Falls
a waterfall in Guyana (South America), on the Potaro River (Essequibo basin). Height, 225 m. The fallswere discovered in 1870 by the British geologist C. BarringtonBrown. The Kaieteur National Park was established in the areain 1929.
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