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Waterfalls between 100 and 500 metres

Big enough to feel the spray from a long way off.

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The heart of the index: waterfalls with a recorded height between 100 and 500 metres. This is the band where most of the world's famous plunges sit, and where the arguments about measurement begin.

108 waterfalls

1 RöthbachfallGermany 470 m 2 Kunchikal FallsIndia · Often cited as India's tallest waterfall by total height 455 m 3 Hiʻilawe WaterfallUnited States 442 m 4 Della FallsCanada · One of Canada's tallest waterfalls, and among its most remote 440 m 5 Gavarnie FallsFrance 422 m 6 Seven Sisters WaterfallNorway · Centerpiece of the UNESCO-listed Geirangerfjord 410 m 7 Hunlen FallsCanada 396 m 8 Lofoi FallsDemocratic Republic of the Congo 384 m 9 VermafossenNorway 381 m 10 Krimml WaterfallsAustria · Tallest waterfall in the Alps 380 m 11 Takakkaw FallsCanada · One of Canada's tallest waterfalls 373 m 12 Shōmyō FallsJapan 350 m 13 Vaipō WaterfallFrance 350 m 14 Pissing Mare FallsCanada 343 m 15 Gastein WaterfallAustria · A waterfall running through the center of an Alpine spa town 341 m 16 Cachoeira da FumaçaBrazil · One of Brazil's tallest waterfalls 340 m 17 Nohkalikai FallsIndia · India's tallest plunge waterfall 340 m 18 Dudhsagar FallsIndia · India's tallest railway-adjacent waterfall 310 m 19 Wallaman FallsAustralia · Australia's tallest permanent single drop (268 m), 305 m in total 305 m 20 Riandahy FallsMadagascar 300 m 21 Staubbach FallsSwitzerland · The waterfall that inspired a Goethe poem 297 m 22 VettisfossenNorway · Norway's tallest completely unregulated waterfall 275 m 23 Baatara Gorge WaterfallLebanon · One of the world's most unusual waterfalls, behind three natural bridges 255 m 24 Jog FallsIndia · India's second-tallest plunge waterfall 253 m 25 Kaieteur FallsGuyana · Among the most powerful single drops on earth: 226 metres in one plunge 251 m 26 Tamarind FallsMauritius 250 m 27 Rianbavy FallsMadagascar 250 m 28 Basaseachic FallsMexico · Mexico's second-tallest waterfall 246 m 29 Carbet FallsFrance 245 m 30 Kalambo FallsZambia · Tanzania · Africa's second-highest single-drop waterfall 235 m 31 Kaluđerski SkokoviSerbia 232 m 32 Blencoe FallsAustralia 230 m 33 Wollomombi FallsAustralia 230 m 34 MorsárfossIceland 227 m 35 KjosfossenNorway 225 m 36 Amicalola FallsUnited States · Tallest waterfall in Georgia and the southeastern US 222 m 37 Chilnualna FallsUnited States 212 m 38 Tully FallsAustralia 210 m 39 Ryūzu FallsJapan 210 m 40 Jim Jim FallsAustralia · One of Kakadu's most dramatic escarpment plunge pools 200 m 41 Sakaleona FallsMadagascar 200 m 42 Maletsunyane FallsLesotho · Longest single-drop abseil (204m) in the world 192 m 43 GlymurIceland 190 m 44 Bridalveil FallUnited States · Yosemite's most reliably year-round waterfall 189 m 45 Multnomah FallsUnited States · Oregon's most-visited natural landmark 189 m 46 Kurundu Oya FallsSri Lanka 189 m 47 Wentworth FallsAustralia · A signature day trip from Sydney into the Blue Mountains 187 m 48 VøringsfossenNorway · One of Norway's most celebrated national tourist route waterfalls 182 m 49 Nevada FallUnited States · Upper anchor of Yosemite's famous Mist Trail 181 m 50 Sankai FallsJapan 181 m 51 Shahandasht WaterfallIran 180 m 52 Crypt FallsCanada 175 m 53 Itiquira FallsBrazil · One of central Brazil's tallest waterfalls 168 m 54 Cascata delle MarmoreItaly · Tallest man-made waterfall in the world 165 m 55 LatefossenNorway · One of Norway's most photographed twin waterfalls 165 m 56 Bowen FallsNew Zealand · One of only two permanent waterfalls on Milford Sound 162 m 57 Ellenborough FallsAustralia 160 m 58 Liffey FallsAustralia 160 m 59 Wairere FallsNew Zealand · The North Island's tallest waterfall 153 m 60 Stirling FallsNew Zealand · One of only two permanent waterfalls on Milford Sound 151 m 61 Twin FallsAustralia · A twin-stream falls reachable only by 4WD and boat 150 m 62 San Rafael FallsEcuador 150 m 63 Bird Woman FallsUnited States 150 m 64 Yarrbilgong FallsAustralia 150 m 65 Pančava WaterfallCzech Republic 148 m 66 Cascata del ToceItaly 143 m 67 Magwa FallsSouth Africa 142 m 68 Helmcken FallsCanada · Fourth-largest waterfall in Canada by flow 141 m 69 Trümmelbach FallsSwitzerland · Glacier waterfalls you walk through inside the mountain — unique in Europe 140 m 70 FossáFaroe Islands 140 m 71 Korab FallsNorth Macedonia 138 m 72 Akaka FallsUnited States · Big Island's most-visited waterfall 135 m 73 Bishop FallsIndia 135 m 74 Nachi FallsJapan · Japan's tallest single-drop waterfall, worshipped as a deity 133 m 75 Tequendama FallsColombia · Colombia's most famous, and most polluted, waterfall 132 m 76 Caracol FallsBrazil · Rio Grande do Sul's tallest waterfall 131 m 77 Belmore FallsAustralia 130 m 78 Cascate NardisItaly 130 m 79 HengifossIceland 128 m 80 Upper Whitewater FallsUnited States 125 m 81 Raysko PraskaloBulgaria 124 m 82 Apsley FallsAustralia 123 m 83 HáifossIceland 122 m 84 Powerscourt WaterfallIreland · Ireland's tallest waterfall 121 m 85 Dry Falls (Grant County)United States 121 m 86 Ruacana FallsNamibia · Angola · Namibia's tallest waterfall when in flood 120 m 87 Steall FallsUnited Kingdom · Scotland's second-tallest waterfall 120 m 88 Reichenbach FallsSwitzerland · The waterfall where Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes 120 m 89 Fukuroda FallsJapan · One of Japan three greatest waterfalls 120 m 90 Tad Fane FallsLaos · Laos's tallest twin waterfall 120 m 91 Tumpak SewuIndonesia · One of Indonesia's most dramatic amphitheatre waterfalls 120 m 92 Kautz Creek FallsUnited States 120 m 93 KitsiputousFinland 118 m 94 Comet FallsUnited States 116 m 95 Ebor FallsAustralia 115 m 96 Falls of GlomachUnited Kingdom · One of Britain tallest waterfalls 113 m 97 Ouzoud FallsMorocco · Among Morocco's tallest and best-known waterfalls 110 m 98 Carrabeanga FallsAustralia · A two-day, 20-abseil canyon descent in Kanangra-Boyd 110 m 99 Purling Brook FallsAustralia · A full behind-the-falls circuit walk in a Gondwana rainforest relic 109 m 100 Victoria FallsZimbabwe · Zambia · Largest sheet of falling water on Earth 108 m 101 Boka WaterfallSlovenia · Slovenia's tallest waterfall 106 m 102 Kalandula FallsAngola · One of Africa's largest waterfalls by volume 105 m 103 Tamul FallsMexico · One of Mexico's tallest and widest waterfalls 105 m 104 RjukanfossenNorway · Anchor of a UNESCO industrial heritage landscape 104 m 105 Kopren WaterfallSerbia 104 m 106 DynjandiIceland 100 m 107 Cascate del VaroneItaly 100 m 108 Davies Creek FallsAustralia 100 m

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