Kaieteur Falls, Guyana

Kaieteur Falls is a waterfall on the Potaro River in central Guyana. It is located in the Kaieteur National Park. It is 226 meters (741 feet) when measured from its plunge over a sandstone cliff to the first break. It then flows over a series of steep cascades that, when included in the measurements, bring the total height to 251 meters (822 feet).

Kaieteur Falls
Kaieteur Falls, Guyana
Location Kaieteur Gorge, Mazaruni-Potaro, Guyana
Coordinates 5°10′1.2000″N, 59°28′1.2000″W
Elevation 4380
Type Block
Total height 741 feet/253 meters
Height of longest drop 741 feet/226 meters
Average width 371 feet/113 meters
Number of drops 1
Average flow rate 23,400 cu ft/s or 663 m³/s
Watercourse Potaro River
World height ranking 122

Kaieteur Falls is about five times higher than the more well known Niagara Falls, located on the border between Canada and the United States and about two times the height of the Victoria Falls located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa. It is a single drop waterfall which is the 122nd tallest (single and multi-drop waterfall) in the world according to the World Waterfalls Database. The same web site lists it as 19th largest waterfall in terms of volume, and in their estimation, Kaieteur is the 26th most scenic waterfall in the world