Kerepakupai merú- Venezuela

The Kerepakupai merú is also known as "Angel's Falls" (Salto Angel). Kerepakupai merú is the pemon tribe's name to this beautiful falls.

Kerepakupai merú is the highest in the world, with a height of 979 m of which 807 m is uninterrupted.This falls is generated by the waters of Churún river from the Auyantepuy. It is located in the National Park Canaima in Bolivar State, Venezuela. On June 12, 1962, the National was established and declared World Heritage Site in 1994 by the UNESCO. The Canaima National Park covers a great territory extending to the borders with Guyana and Brazil.

The name given by the Pemon Kerepakupai-merú means "The fall to the deepest place" («caída de agua hasta el sitio más profundo»). It's discovery is a matter of disagreement since some historian attribute the first discovery to Ernesto Sánchez, an explorer in 1910 who notified his discovery to the Ministery of Mines and Petroleum in Caracas. Other historians attribute the "discovery" to an Armada captain Félix Cardona Puig, who in 1927, together with Mundó Freixas, mapped the area all the way to the Auyantepui. Cardona's articles and Maps made Jimmy Angel curious. So curious indeed that Jimmy Angel got in contact with Cardona to make various visits to the Falls in 1937. On the 21st of May,1937, Cardona accompany Jimmy Angel to a fly over the falls. In September of that same year, Jimmy Angel insisted on landing at the top of the Auyantepuy. In doing so, he caused the plane to get stuck. Because the plane landed safely without any of its passengers getting hurt, the locals decided to name the falls after Angel.
As a result, the name better known today is that of Angel's Falls. To the pemons, Kerep is the name of the river and Kerepakupai merú the name of the falls.

For many years people were in the mistaken impression that the Falls name wrongly Churún-merú, but this name belongs to a smaller falls of approximately 400 meters height located at the end Devil's Canyon (Cañón del Diablo). Nowadays, the fourth highest falls in the world.