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	Kaieteur National Park
		Kaieteur Falls is one of the most spectular waterfalls in the world.
		Kaieteur can be admired close-up or filmed at varying distances and from numerous camera angles; aerial views of the Falls are truly spectacular.
		Kaieteur National Park is situated on the Guiana Shield, a plateau that is one of the world's oldest and remotest geological formations.
	www.kaieteurpark.gov.gy (162 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kaieteur Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Kaieteur Falls, waterfall on the river Potaro, a tributary of the Essequibo in Guyana.
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /Kaieteur+Falls.html (206 words)

	Incredible Waterfalls: Kaieteur Falls
		If you happen to come across Kaieteur Falls in the South American Jungle you will be struck by how it resembles the classic jungle waterfall that exists in the cultural mind's eye.
		Besides this Kaieteur Falls is, shall I say, lucky to exist in one of the world’s most diverse rain forests in the world and on top of that there is very little human habitation in the rain forest so that conserving the waterfall and the jungle was an easy decision to make.
		The falls exist in roughly the north eastern portion of South America, in the area of Mazaruni-Potaro on the similarly named Kaieteir Gorge.
	www.garden-fountains.com /garden-info/kaieteur-falls.html (504 words)

	Introduction to the Kaieteur Falls National Park Plant Checklist
		Kaieteur is second in height only to Angel Falls, Venezuela (918 m; 3012 ft) and five time the height of Niagra Falls, New York, and unlike Angel Falls, Kaieteur carries a large volume of water year round.
		Kaieteur, located along the Potaro River at 5º10' N latitude and 59º29' W longitude, is the site of the only national park in Guyana.
		It is hoped that the Checklist of the Plants of Kaieteur National Park will help to enlighten the student and plant enthusiast about the unique plants that inhabit this area, and develop an awareness for the inherent natural values of this unique community.
	www.mnh.si.edu /biodiversity/bdg/kaieteur/intro1.html (2550 words)

	Guyana 2002 - Kaieteur Falls
		While the members of Group A were on their way to Iwokrama, Group B flew to Kaieteur Falls.
		After landing at the airstrip on the plateau above the Falls, they followed the trail along the rim of the gorge.
		The first view of the Falls from the trail along the rim.
	www.geocities.com /ttfnc2/guy2002/kaieteur.html (129 words)

	Planet Ark - FEATURE - Guyana's Kaieteur Falls a secret ... for now
		Kaieteur is reached via a 45-minute trip by light plane over vast tracts of rain forest some 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Georgetown, the capital of the former British colony tucked in the northeast corner of South America.
		Nowadays the ticket to the falls is a $210 one-day flight, which includes other attractions such as the Orinduik Falls on the Brazilian border, a 2-3 day boat trip or a five-day overland trek through the rain forest.
		The area atop the Kaieteur precipice is lush vegetation thick with plants including the bird of paradise, the sprawling rubber cupa and the sundue, a small carnivorous insect eater.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=8050 (1046 words)

	Falls from paradise: Guyana's Kaieteur falls is a remote Yet accessible wilderness - This Land Natural History - Find ...
		Falls from paradise: Guyana's Kaieteur falls is a remote Yet accessible wilderness - This Land
		This is Kaieteur Falls, one of the molt spectacular cataracts in the world.
		Sustained by the mist from the falls, it drips with epiphytes--mosses, ferns, aroids, orchids.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_10_110/ai_80774382 (984 words)

	Kaieteur Falls - Britannica Concise
		The falls are 300 to 350 ft (90 to 105 m) wide at the top and are the central feature of Kaieteur National Park (1930).
		Kaieteur Falls - cataract on the Potaro River, west-central Guyana.
		The total fall in the river's elevation is about 200 feet (60 m), and the seventh and largest cataract is 800 yards (730 m) wide.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9368836 (555 words)

	Oh Beautiful Guyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Kaieteur Falls is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world.
		It has a free fall height of over 700 feet and is one of the few places in the world where endangered species are easily observed.
		Kaieteur National Park is situated on the Guiana Shield, a plateau that is one of the world's oldest and remotest geological formations and located within one of the largest and most biodiverse rainforests in the world.
	www.rit.edu /~dchter/206/project2/kaieteur.html (206 words)

	Kaieteur Falls - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kaieteur Falls, waterfall on the river Potaro, a tributary of the Essequibo in Guyana.
		Waterfall, sudden sheer descent of a stream or river over a steep drop in its bed, sometimes in a free fall.
		- falls in central Guyana, on the Potaro branch of the Essequibo River.
	encarta.msn.com /Kaieteur_Falls.html (162 words)

	Wonders of Guyana * Kaieteur Falls, Harpy Eagle, Le Meridien Pegasus, 1763 Monument
		Kaieteur Falls, Harpy Eagle, Le Meridien Pegasus, 1763 Monument.
		Kaieteur is twice as high as Victoria Falls and almost five times as high as Niagara Falls.
		The falls was discovered on April 29, 1870 by Charles Barrington Brown a famous explorer.
	www.visitgt.com /wonders (833 words)

	Short Excursions
		The Kaieteur Falls which was first seen by a European on April 29, 1870 is situated in the heart of Guyana on the Potaro River, a tributary of the Essequibo.
		Kaieteur supports a unique micro environment with Tank Bromeliads, the largest in the world, in which the tiny Golden frog spends its entire life and the rarely seen Guiana Cock- of-the-rock nesting close by.
		The lucky visitor may also see the famous flights of the Kaieteur Swifts or Makonaima Birds which nest under the vast shelf of rock carved by the centuries of water, hidden behind the eternal curtain of falling water.
	www.wilderness-explorers.com /highligh.htm (1947 words)

	Guyana Tourism Authority: Guyanese Facts
		1 Kaieteur Falls It is a waterfall on the Potaro River.
		Kaieteur Falls at over 700 feet is five times taller than Niagara.
		Kaieteur is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world.
	www.guyana-tourism.com /facts.html (1048 words)

	GSMP... news.....news....news
		Evidence of mining has been seen 11 miles upstream of the world famous Kaieteur Falls and a team is being dispatched overland to verify the source of sediment which has fouled the waters gushing from the tourist attraction.
		The Army Chief of Staff told Stabroek News yesterday that the turbidity of the waters flowing over the Kaieteur Falls was a manifestation of the mining and activities in the tributaries of the Potaro River.
		Although the mighty Kaieteur Falls has returned to its former glory, there are concerns that technical compliance with regulations by miners in the area may not be enough to permit continued operations in that particular zone.
	www.gsmp.org /NEWS/NEWS-08.HTM (3015 words)

	Kaieteur Falls - Ecotourism with JOURNEYS International
		Kaieteur Falls is a waterfall on the Potaro River in central Guyana.
		It is located in the Kaieteur National Park, a region that is also claimed by Venezuela.
		Kaieteur Falls is about five times higher than the more well-known Niagara Falls, which is located on the border between Canada and the United States, and is about two times the height of the Victoria Falls, which is located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa.
	www.journeys-intl.com /info/kaieteur_falls (310 words)

	TriniShack.com - / Scenery / Kaieteur Falls Guyana Your Slice Of Paradise v7.0
		The Kaieteur Falls, which was discovered on the 29 April 1870 by Charles Barrington Brown, the famous hinterland explorer, is situated on the Potaro River, a tributary of the Essequibo River.
		Kaieteur takes the form of a huge perpendicular column of water which cascades into a rainbowed gorge only to be transformed into a mountain of foam with a "billion eyes that hypnotize".There are no other falls in the world with the magnitude of the sheer drop existing at Kaieteur.
		The width of the Fall varies from 250 feet in the dry season to 400 feet at the height of the wet season.
	www.trinishack.com /img5319.htm (471 words)

	Kaieteur Falls
		For comparison, Kaieteur is about five times taller than Niagara falls.
		These falls were awe-inspiring to say the least.
		A close-up view of the falls from the side, including the rainbow that was with us the whole time.
	members.tripod.com /steve-powell/guyana/pictures/country/kaieteur/kaieteur.htm (304 words)

	Natural History: Falls from paradise: Guyana's Kaieteur falls is a remote Yet accessible wilderness - This Land
		This is Kaieteur Falls, one of the molt spectacular cataracts in the world.
		On the plateau, patches of sandy soil near the falls support both scrubby forest and savanna that contains grasses, sedges, scattered shrubs, some small trees, and areas of exposed rock where vegetation appears during the rainy season.
		Sustained by the mist from the falls, it drips with epiphytes--mosses, ferns, aroids, orchids.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_10_110/ai_80774382 (1432 words)

	Guyana Bike Tour: Rupununi
		Kaieteur Falls, the highest single drop waterfall in the world (251m).
		One of the highlights of a visit to Kaieteur Falls is the natural history tour conducted by Lawrence Gibson.
		The endemic Kaieteur Golden frog, also known as the "poison dart frog", spends its entire life in giant bromeliads (many are five to ten feet tall.) The frog benefit from the good hiding places among the leaves and the pools of water that collect at the base of the leaves.
	www.ibike.org /ibike/guyana/guyana/2-Rupununi.htm (1080 words)

	Kaieteur Falls -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The falls are 300 to 350 feet (90 to 105 m) wide at the top and are the central feature of the Kaieteur National Park (established 1930).
		The falls plunge into the McLean Canyon, which is bounded...
		The falls are on the Niagara River, which flows between the United States and Canada from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044334 (847 words)

	Travel Guyana (Places of Interest)
		The Kaieteur Swifts nest under the vast shield of rock hidden behind the curtain of falling water.
		The falls are situated amid the rolling, grass-covered hills of the Pakaraima Mountains, one of the most beautiful regions of Guyana's hinterland.
		The Rupununi is a vast area of dry grasslands, with sparse trees, termite mounds and wooded hills in the Southwest of the country.
	www.geographia.com /guyana/places.html (819 words)

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		Situated in the heart of Guyana on the Potaro River, a tributary of the great Essequibo, Kaieteur Falls is one of the world's natural wonders.
		Flowing over a flat, sandstone tableland into a deep gorge, Kaieteur has a single drop of 741 feet (the largest single drop waterfall in the world).
		The unusual conditions created by the falls support a fascinating micro-environment, which includes some species identifiable only to this area.
	www.lycos.com /info/guyana--world.html (452 words)

	Kaieteur falls travel guide
		With a sheer drop of 228 meter, Kaieteur Falls are 5 times higher than Niagara.
		The falls are located in the middle of a bit of unspoilt rainforest and this fact adds to the attractiveness of the place.
		The region around the falls is a National Park and the best way of getting here is by joining an organized tour.
	www.world66.com /southamerica/guyana/kaieteurfalls (122 words)

	First Nations Vacations - About Guyana
		To discover the beauty of Guyana is to glimpse the flashes of scarlet, yellow, and blue as macaws fly like arrows across a clearing in the forest canopy, and toucans and the awesome Harpy Eagle swoop through the trees.
		The natural wonder of Kaieteur Falls, where the 400 foot wide Potaro River plunges over the Pakaraima Plateau in a stunning 741 foot single drop, is one of the worlds great waterfalls.
		For magnificence these must be joined by the Orinduik Falls, the Marshall Falls, the Kaieteur Gorge, and remote Mount Roraima - the inspiration for Conan Doyle's Lost World.
	www.guidedculturaltours.com /guyana.php (427 words)

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		Filled with enthusiasm at the thought of seeing the magnificent Kaieteur Falls, I was at Ogle Airport at 8.30 in the morning ready to jump on the plane and leave.
		These magnificent falls vary in width from 250 feet in the dry season to 450 in the rainy season, they are twice as high the Victoria Falls and almost five times as high as Niagara Falls.
		The falls and their surrounding ecosystem have been granted special protection since they became a National Park at the end of the 1950’s.
	www.gsmp.org /ECOTOUR/body-new6.htm (793 words)

	Extension of Kaieteur National Park
		The Potaro river which runs through the Park also provides a link between the Kaieteur Falls and the village and is the gateway in and out of the village.
		Subsequent to the village meeting, the APA sponsored a team of representatives from the village comprising the Toushao, Anthony Melville, three councillors and a former Toushao to visit Georgetown to seek an audience with President Jagan.
		The President therefore agreed to have a meeting out of which it was agreed that the Kaieteur National Park Act would be amended to provide for the rights of the people of Chenapou and that the village itself would provide the draft for the amendment of the Act.
	www.sdnp.org.gy /apa/kaieteur_national_park.htm (678 words)

	Community
		Chenapou is a small Amerindian village located in the forested terrain along the Potaro River, twenty-nine miles upriver from Kaieteur Falls (three hours by speed boat).
		It is fairly isolated from the regional administration (Madhia) and from surrounding Amerindian communities; the nearest settlement (Karisparu) is a four hour walk and the closest villages (Paramakatoi etc.) are two days hard trek through the forest.
		Over the years, Kaieteur Falls, with its airstrip, has become a gateway to the interior.
	www.kaieteurpark.gov.gy /community.htm (612 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kaieteur Falls, Latin America & Caribbean Islands (Latin American And Caribbean Physical Geography) - ...
		Kaieteur Falls, Latin American And Caribbean Physical Geography
		Kaieteur Falls[kIutoor´] Pronunciation Key, waterfall, 741 ft (226 m) high, in the Potaro River, W Guyana.
		One of the most impressive falls in South America, it is included in a national park.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kaieteur.html (180 words)

	Travel Guyana: (Guyana Overview)
		Kaieteur Falls, where the 400-foot wide Potaro River plunges 741 feet downward from the Pakaraima Plateau, is one of the world's great waterfalls.
		The magnificence of Kaieteur stands beyond any comparison in its majesty and sheer size.
		For the adventurer, Guyana is a place of wonder; for the eco-tourist, it is a country where nature has placed its greatest riches.
	www.geographia.com /guyana (428 words)

	Cariwave Travel Info - Guyana
		The Majestic Kaieteur Falls, is a gemstone of the jungle and is the highest continuous single drop fall in the world of 741 feet, which is 5 times that of Niagra falls, then there's another 81 feet into the deep gorge below, a total of 822 feet with two drops.
		The falls lie on the Potaro River which is located in Essequibo, the largest county of Guyana, bordering its neighbor, Venezuela.
		While on your tour, you will experience an ecosystem and the diversity of birds and animals of a country which only 2% is inhabited by humans as the beauty of nature whispers to you while the colourful birds serenade you.
	www.cariwave.com /Cariwave_Travel_Info_Guyana.htm (505 words)

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