Venezuela’s highest waterfall, the world’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall, is Angel Falls.
The waterfall drops from Auyan-tepui, a flat-topped mountain in Canaima National Park in southeastern Venezuela. Its total height is 979 metres, including a 807-metre uninterrupted plunge. Water often breaks into mist before reaching the ground because of the extreme height.
The waterfall is named after Jimmie Angel, a US aviator who flew over it in 1933. Angel’s plane later crash-landed on the tepui in 1937, and the aircraft remained there for decades before being removed and placed near Ciudad Bolívar.
Angel Falls is also known by its Indigenous Pemon name, Kerepakupai Merú. It is sometimes mistakenly described as being in Brazil or Guyana, but the waterfall is entirely within Venezuela.