What is the most powerful waterfall in the world?
This really depends on what you mean by “powerful.” Now before I go into some technicalities, the popular answer is undoubtedly the big three simply because they’re the biggest legitimate waterfalls left on earth: Iguazu Falls, Niagara Falls, and Victoria Falls. But let’s break down what it means for something to be “powerful.” I can think of two interpretations. First, you can talk about power in terms of the amount of force the waterfall exerts. So if you can imagine yourself at the base of a particular waterfall, how much is the waterfall going to crush you? More accurately, how much volume of water is in the waterfall and how fast is that volume of water moving? Given this criteria, you could argue the most powerful waterfalls in the world could be between the Horseshoe Falls portion of Niagara Falls or the Devil’s Throat portion of Iguassu Falls. Why? Because those are the parts of the waterfalls where there’s the most volume falling vertically a pretty significant distance (thus
