Extremely high waterfall discovered

*Raph's Girl* · 03-22-2006, 01:21 AM

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/1...5,00050001.htm

A German explorer says he's found one of the world's highest waterfalls in Peru's isolated northern jungle.

Stefan Ziemendorff on Monday led a local television camera crew to the falls, which he says he found in 2002 in the Department of Amazonas, about 650 kilometers north of the capital, Lima.

The waterfall has rarely been seen by anyone, due to its remote location and legends that it is haunted by a mystical siren have kept the native population at bay for hundreds of years.

The waterfall measures "seven hundred and seventy one meters, with a margin of error of thirteen and a half meters," Ziemendorff told Peru's state-run Channel 7 television.

At that height, the waterfall would be hundreds of meters short of the world's highest, but still impressive. The highest falls are Salto del Angel (Angel's Leap) in Venezuela, which measures 972 meters, and South Africa's Tugela Falls, which are 948 meters high.

Raph's Girl note: Tried to find an image of this but alas there doesn't seem to be any. I saw a report of this on the local news....it's very beautiful. Odd tho that a waterfall so tall in Peru wasn't discovered till now...even if it IS in a part of the jungle that's largely unexplored. They could have seen it from the air.

03-22-2006, 01:21 AM	#1
Raph's Girl Dierna Soul, Reporter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Jakku Posts: 10,831	Extremely high waterfall discovered http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/1...5,00050001.htm A German explorer says he's found one of the world's highest waterfalls in Peru's isolated northern jungle. Stefan Ziemendorff on Monday led a local television camera crew to the falls, which he says he found in 2002 in the Department of Amazonas, about 650 kilometers north of the capital, Lima. The waterfall has rarely been seen by anyone, due to its remote location and legends that it is haunted by a mystical siren have kept the native population at bay for hundreds of years. The waterfall measures "seven hundred and seventy one meters, with a margin of error of thirteen and a half meters," Ziemendorff told Peru's state-run Channel 7 television. At that height, the waterfall would be hundreds of meters short of the world's highest, but still impressive. The highest falls are Salto del Angel (Angel's Leap) in Venezuela, which measures 972 meters, and South Africa's Tugela Falls, which are 948 meters high. Raph's Girl note: Tried to find an image of this but alas there doesn't seem to be any. I saw a report of this on the local news....it's very beautiful. Odd tho that a waterfall so tall in Peru wasn't discovered till now...even if it IS in a part of the jungle that's largely unexplored. They could have seen it from the air. __________________