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Newfoundland & Labrador

Churchill Falls

Churchill Falls is a 245 ft high waterfall on the in , Canada. Formerly counted among the most impressive natural features of Canada, the diversion of the river for the has cut off almost all of the falls' former flow, leaving a small stream winding through its old bed and trickling down the rocks.
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  • Type: Waterfall
  • Description: waterfall on the Churchill River in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Also known as: “Grand Falls”, “Hamilton Falls”, and “McLean Falls”

Churchill Falls

Latitude
53.59451° or 53° 35′ 40″ north
Longitude
-64.3077° or 64° 18′ 28″ west
Elevation
410 metres (1,345 feet)
Height
75 metres (245 feet)
Open location code
975QHMVR+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1958975925
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­waterfall
Geo­Names ID
5922118
Wiki­data ID
Q37799
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Churchill Falls” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “丘吉尔瀑布”
  • Chinese: “丘吉爾瀑布”
  • Czech: “Churchill Falls”
  • Czech: “Churchill”
  • Czech: “Churchillovy vodopády”
  • Dutch: “Churchill Falls”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشوركيل فالس”
  • Finnish: “Churchillin putoukset”
  • French: “Churchill Falls”
  • French: “chutes Churchill”
  • French: “Chutes Churchill”
  • German: “Churchill Falls”
  • German: “Smallwood-Stausee”
  • Japanese: “チャーチル滝”
  • Mazanderani: “ئوشار چورچیل”
  • Mazanderani: “چورچیل ئوشار”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Churchill Falls vannkraftverk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Churchill Falls”
  • Norwegian: “Churchill Falls”
  • Persian: “آبشار چرچیل”
  • Persian: “آبشار چورچیل”
  • Persian: “ابشار چرچیل”
  • Persian: “ابشار چورچیل”
  • Portuguese: “Churchill Falls”
  • Russian: “Водопад Черчилл”
  • Russian: “Водопад Черчилля”
  • Russian: “Черчилл-Фолс”
  • Russian: “Черчилл”
  • Spanish: “Cascadas Churchill”
  • Tajik: “Обшори Черчил”
  • Tajik: “Черчил”
  • Tajik: “Шаршараи Черчил”
  • Tamil: “சர்ச்சில் அருவி”
  • Tamil: “சர்ச்சில் நீர்வீழ்ச்சி”
  • Ukrainian: “Черчилл”
  • Urdu: “چرچل آبشار”
  • Western Panjabi: “چرچل آبشار”
  • “Churchill Falls”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Churchill Falls”. Photo: Infernocow, Public domain.