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Gocta Waterfall. Gocta (Spanish: Catarata del Gocta) is a perennial waterfall with two drops located in Peru's province of Bongara in Amazonas, approximately 771 kilometres (479 mi) to the northeast of Lima. It flows into the Cocahuayco River.
Gocta Cataracts: 771 metres (2,530 ft) Amazonas: Peru [18] Mutarazi Falls: 762 metres (2,500 ft) Manicaland: Zimbabwe [19] Kjelfossen: 755 metres (2,477 ft) Vestland: Norway [20] Johannesburg Falls: 751 metres (2,464 ft) Washington: United States [21] Yosemite Falls: 739 metres (2,425 ft) California: United States [22] Cloudcap Falls: 732 m ...
Yumbilla is 895.5 m (2,938 ft) high, with the top located 2,723.6 m (8,936 ft) above sea level and the base at 1,828.1 m (5,998 ft). [1] The height was measured with the help of laser instruments by a geographical survey of the National Geographic Institute of Peru (IGN) in 2007.
Tres Hermanas Falls (Spanish for Three Sisters) is reportedly the third tallest waterfall in the world, with a height of 914 metres (2,999 ft). [1] [2] It is located inside Otishi National Park, near the northern fork of the Cutivireni River, [3] in the Peruvian region of Junín.
The movement to include the road system was initiated with Peru's addition of it to the tentative list in 2001. Argentina and Chile joined the movement shortly afterwards. On January 29, 2003, the six Andean states approached the World Heritage Centre, requesting that it take charge of coordinating the joint project. [ 32 ]
The La Raya mountain range (Spanish for the line, the limits, the border) is situated in the Andes of Peru.It extends in a northeasterly direction approximately between 14º 20’ and 14º 33’S and 70º 57’ and 71º 02’W for about 10 km. [1] It is located in the Cusco Region as well as in the Puno Region, northwest of the Peruvian Altiplano and Lake Titicaca, near the La Raya pass.
The train brings visitors to the entrance of Devil's Throat, as well as the upper and lower trails. The Paseo Garganta del Diablo is a 1 km-long (0.6 mi) trail that brings visitors directly over the falls of Devil's Throat, the highest and deepest of the falls. Other walkways allow access to the elongated stretch of falls across the forest on ...
Chazuta District is one of fourteen districts of the province San Martín in Peru. [2] San Martín Province is located in north central Peru, in San Martín Region, a highland area on the edge of the Amazon Basin. Immediately to the east of San Martín Region is the large lowland region of Loreto, in the northeast corner