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Victoria Falls, located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, is a waterfall of the Zambezi River.
They are located in the Livingstone district of the Southern Province of Zambia and the Hwange district of the West Mashonaland region of Zimbabwe.
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Over the falls is the Victoria Falls Bridge, an old steel arch completed in 1905.
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David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, visited the waterfall in 1855 and named them after Queen Victoria, although they are known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya, 'the smoke that thunders'. The waterfall is part of two national parks, Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia and Victoria Falls National Park in Zimbabwe, and they are one of the biggest tourist attractions in southern Africa. The Victoria Falls were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1989, protecting an area of 8,780 ha.
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Since 2010, they are integrated into the Kavango-Zambezi Conservation Area. Victoria Falls are formed by the plummet in a single vertical from a peak between 60 and 120 m. wide, sculpted by its waters along a basalt plateau.
The only exit from the First Gorge is a space of 110 m. wide about two-thirds of the way across the width of the falls from the western part, through which the entire volume of the river falls into the gorges of Victoria Falls.
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The plateau along which the Zambezi River flows experiences a rainy season from late November to early April; and a dry season the rest of the year. The annual flood takes place between February and May with a peak in April. The water sprayed from the waterfalls reaches 400 meters and even 800 meters depending on the season.
The size of Victoria Falls is almost twice the size of Niagara Falls, and more than twice the size of the Horseshoe. They only rival the Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Brazil.