With a height of >3200 feet and a clear drop of >2600 feet, the Angel Falls, located in the Canaima National Park of the Venezuelan state of Bolivar, is the highest free-falling waterfall on eath.
Angel Falls has long been known to the local folk and Venezuelan explorers but became more known to the rest of the world when the American bush pilot and adventurer James Angel flew over them in the 1930's.
(Video from youtube.com; posted by xbughi 07.09.07)