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Angel Falls was named after Jimmie Angel, an American adventurer who crash landed his plane on a nearby mesa two years after the falls had been discovered. The highest waterfall in the world, it drops 3,212 feet and is 500 feet wide at its base, falling from a plateau called Auyan-Tepui, which means "Devil's Mountain". The water falls some 2,648 feet, uninterrupted, with the majority of the water vaporizing and forming exotic clouds before it hits the valley below.
