The waterfall Salto Angel is 967 meters high and is located in the Canaima National Park.
A huge column of water that erupts furiously from the imposing rock wall of the Tepuy Auyantepuy falls with a deafening roar and disappears into a dense mist of water spray before reaching the Churún River. This is Angel Falls - in some guides it also appears as Angel Falls or Angel Falls in English -, the highest waterfall in the world with its 979 meters of altitude, of which only 807 are continuous fall, while the rest are small equally impressive waterfalls.
The waterfall Angel Falls is located in the Canaima National Park, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994. A whim of nature full of rivers, rainforests and 115 tepuys, high rocky plateaus of Precambrian origin, with almost geometric edges Chiseled by erosion for millions of years. The geologists agree in dating this place as prior to the irruption of life on the planet, but there is not much unanimity about who discovered the Angel Falls. Venezuelans attribute it to explorer Ernesto Sánchez, who in 1910 notified the discovery to the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons in Caracas. The story, however, has wanted to leave as its discoverer the American pilot Jimmy Angel, who in 1937 accidentally landed on the top of the tepuy becoming officially the first human being who put his foot on the Auyantepuy, data more than enough to baptize the waterfall as Angel Falls in his honor.
This huge waterfall has always lived wrapped in a halo of magic. The Pemon Indians, natives of the land and who in our days combine their ancestral traditions with their tasks as tour guides, already knew her before the Jimmy Angel air incident. They called it kerepakupai will see or kerepakupai merú, which means "jump from the deepest place", but they did it from terror. Because the Auyantepuy, for them Mountain of Hell, harbored the mawariton or "evil spirits", and especially Tramán-Chita, the supreme being of evil. Today we know that the rage of this cataract is not due to any devil but to the force of the water of the intense tropical rains that are concentrated and unloaded only on the tepuy itself. That is why there is no river proper, but improvised streams that meander over the plain until they converge on the hillside. The rain that gives life to the Angel Falls can also be a hindrance for the traveler: the higher the rainfall, the more chances of encountering clouds that make their sight impossible. On the other hand, in the dry season (between December and March) the sky is usually flat although the cataract also falls more squalid. The virulence of the torrent, together with the steepness of the tepuy walls, hinders the growth of plant life, as well as animal migrations. Hence, endemic flora and fauna species have been found at the top, such as certain carnivorous plants that only inhabit the peaks of these plateaus.
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