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Angel Falls, waterfall, southeastern Venezuela, on the Rio Churún. It is the highest uninterrupted cataract in the world, dropping 979 m (3,212 ft) from the mesa of Auyán Tepuy in the rain-forest-covered Guiana Highlands. It was visited in 1935 by the American aviator and adventurer James C. Angel, after whom it is named.



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