South America
Waterfalls of South America
16 destinations across South America, ordered by significance. Filter by activity to find the ones that run what you want to do.
Angel Falls
Water leaves the flat top of Auyán-tepui and falls so far that much of it atomizes into mist before ever reaching the pool below, a…
Iguazu Falls
Nearly 275 individual cascades stretch across almost three kilometres where the Iguazu River meets a basalt escarpment, with catwal…
Devil's Throat
A U-shaped chasm swallows roughly half of the entire river's flow at once, and a 1,100-metre catwalk on the Argentine side walks yo…
Yumbilla Falls
Measured in 2007 and found to be taller than nearby Gocta, this four-tiered cascade near Cuispes ranks among the highest waterfalls…
Gocta Falls
Hidden by cloud forest above the Utcubamba valley, this two-tiered giant remained unmapped by outsiders until a German-led survey i…
La Chorrera
Colombia's tallest waterfall drops in multiple tiers down a cloud-forest escarpment near Choachí, reachable only with a certified l…
Cachoeira da Fumaça
Water free-falls off a sandstone tableland in Chapada Diamantina and, in a strong breeze, never reaches the canyon floor at all, di…
Kaieteur Falls
A single, uninterrupted drop nearly five times the height of Niagara pours off the Guiana Shield through untouched rainforest, with…
Itiquira Falls
A wide sheet of water drops off the Cerrado plateau into a deep swimmable pool, one of the tallest waterfalls in Brazil's central s…
Tequendama Falls
Just outside Bogotá, the Bogotá River drops off the savanna's edge into a deep canyon beside a haunting abandoned belle-époque hote…
Caracol Falls
A single unbroken plunge through the Serra Gaúcha's subtropical forest is viewed from a glass-floored observation tower and a funic…
Salto del Laja
The Laja River fans out across a broad basalt shelf south of Concepción, splitting into multiple channels that reunite in a wide, l…
Salto Ventana
A modest but scenic drop in the granite hills of Uruguay's Lavalleja department, reached via a rolling hike through one of the coun…
Salto Grande
The outflow between Lake Nordenskjöld and Lake Pehoé crashes through a narrow rock gap with the granite horns of Torres del Paine a…
Salto do Yucumã
Rather than falling across the river, the water here plunges lengthwise along a geological fault line running parallel to the Urugu…
Petrohué Falls
Turquoise glacial meltwater from Lake Todos los Santos tears through channels carved into ancient lava flows, with the snow-capped …
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