Type Block Total width 500 feet (150 m) Width 152 m Watercourse Kicking Horse River | Total height 98 feet (30 m) Height 30 m Province British Columbia | |
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Location Field, British Columbia Address Yoho National Park, Columbia-Shuswap A, BC, Canada Similar Rocky Mountains, Takakkaw Falls, Canadian Rockies, Emerald Lake, Lake O'Hara | ||
Wapta Falls is a waterfall located in Yoho National Park in British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest waterfall of the Kicking Horse River, at about 30 metres (98 ft) high and 150 metres (490 ft) wide. Its average flow can reach 254 cubic metres per second (9,000 cu ft/s). The name stems from a Nakoda Indian word meaning "river".
Contents
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Use in a film
Le Ruffian, (1983) - Actors; Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Cardinale, Beatrix Van Til, Pierre Frag
References
Wapta Falls Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA