# Is there a list of waterfalls by volume/width AND height?

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**Created:** [March 18, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-waterfalls-by-volume-width-and-height/653222 "2013-03-18T02:50:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-waterfalls-by-volume-width-and-height/653222/1 "2013-03-18T02:50:31Z")

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I’ve always thought that the size of a waterfalls “grandeur”, to coin a phrase, was a product of both height _and_ volume per second and/or width. But all waterfall lists I’ve found online only list one or the other.

If I wanted to compile the largest in both of these categories (height \* volume and height \* width), I could simply look at lists of the highest and widest and then find out the other datum indepently through a web search. But I could theoretically be missing waterfalls that were not in the top 10 in either category but when multiplied are still impressive.

Heck, I thought I was on to something when I stumbled upon [worldwaterfalldatabase.com](http://worldwaterfalldatabase.com) . It even had a downloadable KML file but upon inspection it also only has one or the other, not both 😕

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-waterfalls-by-volume-width-and-height/653222/2 "2013-03-18T03:29:04Z")

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On the World Waterfall Database,

> **[World Waterfall Database](https://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/)**
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> The internet's largest database of information about Waterfalls. Find information, statistics, pictures, maps, directions and more.

you can find lists by height, (under Tallest), width, and volume, (under Largest). Compiling them into a single list would require your effort, of course.

Try finding a copy of the World Almanac & Book of Facts. It used to have such lists in it.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-waterfalls-by-volume-width-and-height/653222/3 "2013-03-18T12:30:03Z")

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