Victoria Falls Facts and Full Info

Popular tourist destination vacation that much public attention that is Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls is a waterfall in southern Africa. Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Named in honor of Queen Victoria by the explorer Dr David Livingstone in 1855. The Victoria Falls remains the only African representative among the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.

 
The flow is much higher during the rainy season from March to April. During November and December, on the contrary, the flow can be restricted to a trickle. Although Victoria Falls is not the widest or tallest in the world, there is no place on earth saw the curtains were greater than the water cascading over the cliff into the abyss.

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Victoria Falls is also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya (Tokaleya Tonga: the Smoke that Thunders). Air currents above the abyss, most of the water reached the canyon floor as fog. Spray from the waterfall to condense and fall as rain disrupted in a simple patch of rain forest in Cataract and Livingstone island at the foot of the ravine. This rain forest supports a rich ecosystem of rare plants, amphibians and insects.

The rain forest is one of the few places on earth where rain without pause. The waterfall is actually made up of five separate cascades, a staggering 5603 feet wide but only a 360-foot drop into the abyss of the 400-foot-wide. On average, waterfalls dispose of 38 422 cubic feet at the edge of the Zambezi River per second.