Salto Angel

Salto Angel or Salto del Ángel - literally swan dive - is the name given to highest the falls of water of the world, which reaches 979 Mr. These falls of water phenomenal punctuate the course of the Canaïma, small tributary of a tributary of the Orénoque, in the area of Gran Sabana with the Venezuela.

In the Western sector of the National park Canaima is the Auyan Tepuy, one of highest and most famous the Tepuy S, mountains at the flat top broadsides by immense cliffs.

Salto Angel owes its name with Jimmy Angel, the American aviator who discovered it in 1937 while trying to pose his plane on the plate. However, the Indians Pémons knew it well before and had baptized it Kerekupai-merú or Churun Merun.

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