Angel Falls is the world’s highest uninterrupted waterfall, located in Venezuela’s Canaima National Park.
The waterfall drops from Auyán-tepui, a flat-topped sandstone mountain in the Guiana Highlands. Its total height is 979 metres, including a 807-metre uninterrupted plunge. Water often breaks into mist before reaching the pools and cascades below because of the enormous vertical drop.
The falls are known in the Indigenous Pemon language as Kerepakupai Merú, commonly translated as “waterfall of the deepest place.” The English name honors American aviator Jimmy Angel, whose aircraft landed on Auyán-tepui in 1937. The mountain and falls are in a remote region accessible mainly by river and air. Angel Falls should not be confused with Victoria Falls, which is much wider and lies on the Zambia–Zimbabwe border, or Iguazu Falls, a huge system of many cascades in South America.