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Movies Albums Theatre Collectibles. New pictures New articles Current events Recent blog posts. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Great Waterfall. Flare Crate Flare suitcase Laptop. Pale Cannibal Cowman. Beach Hut Village in the far distance. The Forest Wiki Explore. Main Page All Pages. As we walked among the towering, decades-old trees, we saw wildlife like monkeys and also many types of birds, including a pair of toucans perched in a Guarumo tree.

To break up the intense hike, Jesse would stop and show us different medicinal plants like the somewhat foul-tasting Tres Puntos Three Points , which sort of foamed in the mouth but was believed to cleanse the liver and treat dysentery and malaria. At another break, we watched as Sarah approached a huge termite nest.

She knocked gently on the brown nest, extracting a few of the tiny creatures and then told us that they tasted a lot like carrots while popping one in her mouth. A little unsure, we hesitated and then went for it. After about an hour of hiking almost straight up, we arrived at the farm. Sweet lemons, tangerines, native bananas, sugarcane, cacao, cinnamon, vanilla, mint, holy basil, mustard greens that tasted like wasabi, and many other fruits and vegetables grew among the beautiful flowering gladiolas and beehive ginger.

After learning more about the different plants while gnawing on some raw sugarcane, we continued on to the waterfalls. Some were smaller, with big pools good for swimming and relaxing, while others were just the right size for jumping in. Matt was the bravest and joined Jesse to jump from the top of one of the medium sized falls. Another hour or so of hiking later and we arrived at the main attraction. I know this may be bending the rules a bit because you can argue both ways that this waterfall is predictable and reliable or not.

In other words, does it count if the waterfall was manmade, or the watercourse was altered by man in such a way that it caused or destroyed a waterfall? In the case of Mossy Cave, its stream is part of the Tropic Ditch to funnel water towards the nearby town of Tropic. Meanwhile, for Cascata delle Marmore, the Romans created this waterfall after their bit of water diversion to reduce the swamps and incidence of biting insects nearby.

All other artificial waterfalls you might see in shopping centers, water parks, golf courses, even Anaheim Stadium do not count as waterfalls due to their manmade nature. Heck, even the mighty Niagara Falls is similarly affected by man! Also, waterfalls that appear out of place due to urban sprawl count if the waterfall was left in place with the development occurring around it.

Still, there are cases where human intervention resulted in the unpredictability or unreliability of a waterfall usually by diverting the feeding watercourses for hydroelectricity or agriculture or the destruction or disappearance of a waterfall by submersion in reservoirs.

Such examples of the water diversion variety include numerous waterfalls in Norway e. Tyssestrengene and Ringedalsfossen , Mongefossen, Rjukanfossen , etc. Finally, another twist to this topic of human influence on waterfalls is that with the advent of Global Warming and Climate Change as well as more hydroelectric and agricultural interference, the longevity of waterfalls around the world is diminishing.

As a result, in the future, we might have to adjust our definition here or else exclude more waterfalls from the exclusive club of legitimate waterfalls! You must be logged in to submit content.

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Example 2: Browne Falls in New Zealand. Example 6: Bujagali Falls in Uganda. Example 8: Palisade Falls in New Zealand. Example 9: Hovea Falls in Western Australia. Example High Falls near the Georgia-Tennessee border.