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  2. Water feature - Wikipedia

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    In landscape architecture and garden design, a water feature is one or more items from a range of fountains, jeux d'eau, pools, ponds, rills, artificial waterfalls, and streams. Before the 18th century they were usually powered by gravity, though the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon are described by Strabo as supplied by an Archimedean screw ...

  3. Waterfall (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Waterfall (Dutch: Waterval) is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in October 1961.It shows a perpetual motion machine where water from the base of a waterfall appears to run downhill along the water path before reaching the top of the waterfall.

  4. List of waterfalls by type - Wikipedia

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    Cataract: A large, powerful waterfall. [1] Multi-step: A series of waterfalls one after another of roughly the same size each with its own sunken plunge pool. [1] Block: Water descends from a relatively wide stream or river. [1] [2] Cascade: Water descends a series of rock steps. [1] [2] Segmented: Distinctly separate flows of water form as it ...

  5. List of waterfalls by height - Wikipedia

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    The following are lists of waterfalls in the world by height, classified into two categories — natural and artificial. Natural waterfalls are further subdivided between overall height and tallest single drop. Each column (Waterfall, Height, Locality, Country) is sortable by using the up/down link in the column headings at the top of each column.

  6. Artificial waterfall - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The Cascata delle Marmore is an example of a human-made waterfall created by the ancient Romans. Artificial waterfalls were popular in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the famous waterfall in Viktoriapark in Berlin. [1] An early American example is Huntington Waterfalls in Golden Gate Park, San

  7. Kongou Falls - Wikipedia

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    A section of the massive cataract that makes up these impressive falls Photo:Michael Dalton-Smith. Chutes Kongou (also called the Koungou Falls) is a massive cataract about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) wide and up to 56 metres (184 ft) tall, located in Ivindo National Park in eastern Gabon.

  8. Plunge pool - Wikipedia

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    A plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake) is a deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall or shut-in. It is created by the erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at the formation's base where the water impacts. [1] The term may refer to the water occupying the depression, or the depression itself. [2]

  9. Krimml Waterfalls - Wikipedia

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    The lowest tier of the Krimml Waterfalls, Austria's highest waterfall. The Krimml Waterfalls (German: Krimmler Wasserfälle), with a total height of 380 metres (1,247 feet), are the highest waterfall in Austria. [1] The falls are on the Krimmler Ache river and are located near the village of Krimml in the High Tauern National Park in Salzburg ...

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