Kaieteur Falls
Kaieteur Falls is one of the most powerful single-drop waterfalls in the world. It is located on the Potaro River in Kaieteur National Park, central Essequibo Territory, Guyana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sorenriise, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall on the Potaro River in Guyana
- Also known as: “Kaieteur Fall”, “Kaietuk”, and “Old Man’s Fall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kaieteur International Airport.
Kaieteur International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: amanderson2, CC BY 2.0.
Kaieteur Airport is an airport serving Kaieteur National Park in the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana. The airport is less than 1 kilometre west of Kaieteur Falls, among the largest single-drop waterfalls in the world.
Kaieteur Falls
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and body of water
- Location: Potaro-Siparuni, Guyana, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.17494° or 5° 10′ 30″ northLongitude
-59.48065° or 59° 28′ 50″ westElevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)Open location code
68Q25GF9+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 697380057OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfallGeoNames ID
3378105Wikidata ID
Q38120
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Satellite Map
Discover Kaieteur Falls from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Kaieteur Falls” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kaieteur”
- Arabic: “شلالات كايتيور”
- Armenian: “Կաիետեուր ջրվեժ”
- Basque: “Kaieteur ur-jauzia”
- Belarusian: “Каетур”
- Bulgarian: “Кайетур”
- Catalan: “Cascades Kaieteur”
- Cebuano: “Kaieteur Falls”
- Chinese: “凯尔图尔瀑布”
- Chinese: “凱厄圖爾瀑布”
- Czech: “Kaieteur”
- Dutch: “Kaieteur Falls”
- Dutch: “Kaieteurwaterval”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شلالات كايتيور”
- Finnish: “Kaieteur”
- Finnish: “Kaietur”
- French: “chutes de Kaieteur”
- French: “Chutes de Kaieteur”
- German: “Kaieteur-Fälle”
- German: “Kaieteurfälle”
- Hebrew: “מפלי קאיטור”
- Indonesian: “Air terjun Kaieteur”
- Indonesian: “Air Terjun Kaieteur”
- Italian: “cascate Kaieteur”
- Italian: “Cascate Kaieteur”
- Japanese: “カイエトゥール滝”
- Latvian: “Kajetura ūdenskritums”
- Lithuanian: “Kaieteuro krioklys”
- Lithuanian: “Kajeturo krioklys”
- Macedonian: “Каиетеурски водопади”
- Macedonian: “Каиетеурски Водопади”
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار کائتور”
- Mazanderani: “کائتور ئوشار”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaieteurfallet”
- Norwegian: “Kaieteurfallet”
- Persian: “آبشار کائتور”
- Persian: “ابشار کائتور”
- Polish: “Kaieteur”
- Portuguese: “Cataradas de kaieteur”
- Portuguese: “Cataratas de Kaieteur”
- Russian: “Кайетур”
- Serbian: “Каиетеурски водопади”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaieteur”
- Spanish: “Cataratas Kaieteur”
- Swedish: “Kaieteurfallet”
- Tajik: “Каертур”
- Tajik: “Обшори Каертур”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Каертур”
- Thai: “น้ำตกไกย์เอตูร์”
- Turkish: “Kaieteur Şelalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Каєтур”
- Urdu: “کائتور آبشار”
- Vietnamese: “Thác Kaieteur”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rainbow Viewpoint and Boy Scout Viewpoint.
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