Kongou Falls, Gabon

Kongou Falls, or Chutes Kongou en francais, is a massively serial cataract on the Ivindo River. In appearance, it is a series of rushing falls, cascades and cataracts between dozens of heavily forested (alright, jungled...technically) islands. The falls are one of the focal points of the Ivindo National Park in Gabon. You can hear it days before you reach it, a two-mile-wide expanse of roiling water that thunders through a chain of islands, churning up mountains of foam.

Total Height: 185 feet
Tallest Single Drop: 185 feet
Number of Drops: 1
Waterfall Type: segmented
Average Width: 10,500 feet
Average Volume: 31,783 cubic feet / sec.
Maximum Recorded Volume: 95,349 cubic feet / sec.
Watercourse: Ivindo River
Seasonality: Perrenial

What I love about this picture is the attitude of the boatman at the base of the falls. In a craft that looks as though a teardrop would sink it, he paddles calmly along as though this may be his daily route... the most ordinary of passages. How wonderful.