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On a trip to Venezuela some years ago, we took a log-canoe tour of the Canaima Lagoon – arguably the most touristy part of a World Heritage Area that's best known for a modest cascade named, in Spanish, Salto Ángel, or Angel Falls – the tallest single-drop waterfall in the world.

The Rio Churún, into which Salto Ángel flows, runs into the Rio Carrao, which thunders into Laguna Canaima via five extraordinary waterfalls – saltos Hacha, Golondrina, Ucaima,

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