Marble Waterfall - Umbria, Italy

Take State Road "Valnerina" of Terni, you will reach Marmore very famous dive after only 7 km away.

It's obviously an absolute must for anyone who decides to visit Umbria. The waterfalls, which are soaked in natural beauty unsurpassed scenery, is a work made for Rome. In fact, at the time, Velino river was blown up and has created a vast zone is stagnant waters, marshes and unhealthy. Aiming to make deflow waters, consul Curius Dentatus have dug a canal which leads them in the direction of the cliff Marmore.

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Havasu Falls, Arizona

The Havasu 'Baaja (in-person-of-the-blue-green water), or more commonly the Havasupai, the American Indian tribe called Grand Canyon home for at least the last 800 years. Located primarily in the area known as Cataract Canyon, Yuman-speaking population to claim that the reservation of land the size of Delaware. In 1882, however, by the federal government forced the tribe to abandon all but 518 hectares of land.

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Niagara Falls (Ontario, Canada and New York, USA)

Niagara Falls adalah sebuah kota di Kanada 83.184 (per 2008) penduduk di Sungai Niagara di daerah Golden Horseshoe Ontario Selatan. Di seberang sungai Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls Ontario didirikan pada 12 Juni 1903.
Kota ini didominasi oleh Niagara Falls, satu set yang terkenal di dunia dari dua air terjun besar di sungai Niagara dan manfaat dari fakta bahwa kedua jatuh, Amerika dan Horseshoe, dapat menjadi yang terbaik dilihat dari sisi Kanada sungai, sehingga penyajian kota salah satu atraksi wisata utama di dunia. Pemandangan alam membawa dalam jutaan wisatawan tahunan. Kota diizinkan pengembangan kawasan wisata sepanjang jatuh dan ngarai.

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Air Terjun Huangguoshu , China

Huangguoshu Air Terjun, juga dikenal sebagai Pohon Buah Kuning Air Terjun (Cina disederhanakan: 瀑布 黄果树; Cina tradisional: 瀑布 黄果树; pinyin: huángguǒshùpùbù; Wade-Giles: Huang-kuo-shu P'u-pu), merupakan salah satu air terjun terbesar di Cina dan Asia Timur yang terletak di Sungai Baihe (白水河) di Anshun, Provinsi Guizhou. Ini adalah 77,8 m (255 ft) tinggi dan 101 m (331 kaki) lebar. Air terjun utama adalah 67 m (220 kaki) tinggi dan 83,3 m (273 kaki) lebar.

Menggunakan utamanya adalah untuk pariwisata. Dikenal sebagai Huangguoshu Air Terjun Taman Nasional, adalah 45 km (28 mil) barat daya Kota Anshun. Bersama dengan air terjun kecil, pesona air terjun adalah kartu wisata alam gambar. Adegan Huangguoshu Air Terjun perubahan berdiri di tempat yang berbeda.

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Dettifoss, Timur Laut Islandia

Dettifoss adalah sebuah air terjun di Taman Nasional Jökulsárgljúfur Timur Laut Islandia, tidak jauh dari Myvatn. Hal ini terletak di sungai á Jökulsá Fjöllum, yang mengalir dari gletser Vatnajökull dan mengumpulkan air dari area yang luas di Timur Laut Islandia. Jatuh adalah 100 m dan lebar memiliki drop dari 44 m ke ngarai Jökulsárgljúfur. Ini adalah air terjun terbesar di Eropa dalam hal debit volume, memiliki aliran air rata-rata 200 m3 / s

Air terjun hanya bisa dicapai dengan jalan kasar. Di tepi barat tidak ada fasilitas dan tampilan pada air terjun agak terhalang oleh semprotan air terjun itu. Di tepi timur ada sebuah panel informasi dikelola oleh staf Vatnajökull Taman Nasional (Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður) dan trek dipelihara untuk sudut pandang terbaik.

Daerah berpenduduk paling dekat termasuk Vopnafjörður, Myvatn dan Húsavík.

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Air Terjun Toketee, Oregon

Toketee Falls adalah sebuah air terjun yang terletak di Utara Sungai Umpqua di Southern Oregon, sekitar 58 mil (93 km) timur Roseburg, Oregon, AS di dekat Oregon Route 138. Diukir dari basal kolumnar kuno, Toketee Falls tetes sekitar 120 kaki (36 meter) dalam dua tahap.

Dengan aliran air yang dapat diandalkan di Sungai Umpqua Utara, yang Toketee-a Chinook India arti nama anggun-menghindari fluktuasi musiman air terjun sungai-makan lainnya di Oregon.

Air terjun ini diatur oleh sebuah bendungan yang dibangun hanya hulu oleh PacifiCorp, yang sekarang mengatur dan mengurangi aliran air di atas air terjun. Sebelumnya volume penuh Umpqua Utara Sungai dibiarkan mengalir di atas jatuh, tetapi telah dikurangi dengan penstock yang memanfaatkan setetes jatuh untuk menghasilkan pembangkit listrik tenaga air.

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Victoria Waterfalls, Zimbabwe, Africa

The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya (the Smoke that Thunders) is a waterfall situated in southern Africa on the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Fall is some of the largest in the world.
The Victoria Falls are some of the most famous, is considered by some to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World . David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have been the first recorded European to see Victoria Falls - which he did from what is now known as Livingstone Island 'in Zambia, the land can only be accessed in the middle of the waterfall David Livingstone gives fall the name 'Victoria Falls' in honor of his Queen, but. The original name 'Mosi-oa-Tunya' - literally means 'Smoke that Thunders' - also known. World Heritage List recognizes two names  Although not the highest or the widest waterfall in the world, claimed to be the biggest .. This claim is based on the width of 1708 meters (5604 feet) and a height of 108 meters (354 feet), forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world. The maximum flow rate falls' is comparable with other major waterfalls .

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Golden Falls, Islandia

Gullfoss (English: Golden Falls) is a waterfall located in Hvítá river valley in southwest Iceland.
Gullfoss is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country. The Hvítá width rushed south. About a mile above the falls turns sharply to the left and flows down into the "ladder" wide curved three steps and then suddenly plunge in two stages (11 m and 21 m) to 32 gap m (105 ft) deep. Gap, about 20 m (60 ft) wide, and 2.5 km in length, which is at right angles to the flow of rivers. The average amount of water running over this waterfall is 140 m³ / s in summer and 80 m³ / s in winter. The highest flood measured was 2000 m³ / s.
As one of the first approach fall, the gap is closed from view, so it appears that a fairly large river disappears into the earth.
During the first half of the 20th century and some years into the late 20th century, there is much speculation about the use of Gullfoss to generate electricity. During this period, the waterfall was hired indirectly by the owner, Tomas Tomasson and Halldór Halldórsson, for foreign investors. However, the efforts of investors do not succeed, partly because of lack of money. The waterfall was later sold to the state of Iceland. Even after it was sold, there are plans to utilize Hvítá, which will change forever the waterfall. This is not done, and now protected waterfall.

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Air Terjun Iguassu , Brazil

Iguassu Falls, or Igua 莽 u Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Igua 莽 u [删 藞 said in 苁 z du i 伞 藞 wa su]; Spanish: Cataratas del Iguaz 煤 [word 藞 删 ataz 冒 el i 桑 藞 wa su] ; Guarani: Chororo Yguasu [蓵 删 删 扫 桑 asu o 史]) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian State of Paran 谩 and Misiones Province Argentina. Falls divide the river into upper and lower Iguazu. Iguazu River begins in the city of Curitiba and walking for most of the courses in Brazil and at the end on the border of Brazil and Argentina.
Their name comes from the Guarani or Tupi words y [扫] (water) and 没 as 煤 [wa 藞 su] (large) . The legend says that god planned to marry a beautiful native named Naip 铆, who fled with her ​​mortal lover in a canoe Tarob 谩. In anger, the god sliced ​​the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers to fall in everlasting  The first European to discover the falls is a Spanish Conquistador 脕 lvar N ez Cabeza 煤 帽 de Vaca in 1541, after a wrong. fall on the side of Argentina named. falls were rediscovered by Boselli  in the late nineteenth century, and one of the Argentinian falls is named after him.

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Air Terjun Blue Nil , Ethiopia

Blue Nile Falls is a waterfall in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. They are known as Tis Issat in Amharic, when translated, means "water smoke" They are located in the upper river, about 30 kilometers downstream from the town of Bahir Dar and Lake Tana. Fall is considered one of the best tourist attractions of Ethiopia are known.

Fall is estimated between 37 and 45 meters high, consisting of four rivers that varied from droplets initially in the dry season to more than 400 yards in the rainy season. Regulation of Lake Tana is now slightly reduce the variation, and since 2003 hydro-electric station has a lot of flow out of the fall except during the rainy season. The Blue Nile Falls, Lake Tana have isolated ecology of ecology from the rest of the Nile, and this isolation has played a role in the evolution of endemic fauna of the lake.

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