[NYTr] Highest Caribbean Waterfall Located in Cuba

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Highest Caribbean Waterfall Located in Cuba

Baracoa, Oct 1 (ACN) The highest waterfall in the Caribbean, located in 
Cuba's north-eastern municipality of Guantanamo, is a major tourist 
attraction for who travel to the island seeking this contact with 
nature.

A report in the latest edition of the Excelencias del Caribe magazine, 
dedicated to the International Tourism Fair (FITUR), the 305-meter-high 
Salto Fino waterfall is recorded as the 20th highest water chute in the 
world.

The Salto Fino waterfall is produced by a sudden drop in the Arroyo del 
Infierno (Hell's stream), a tributary of the Quibijan River. That 
river, along with 70 others, flows into the Toa, which is the largest 
river in Cuba.

The nearly inaccessible geographic accident is part of the Alejandro de 
Humboldt National Park and of Baracoa's Quibijan-Duaba-Yunque 
Ecological Reserve.

Along with the Toa, the Duaba River runs through the most beautiful 
jungle in Cuba, and together they form the greatest water-energy 
generating source and the most important fresh water reserve in the 
Caribbean.

According to El Explorador, a Cuban speleological website, the 
preliminary study of the highest falls of the Caribbean was carried out 
by the Speleological Society of the Caribbean, the Tropical Geographic 
Institute and the Extreme Club.

The study showed that the water falls from a height of 600 meters to a 
point 295 meters above sea level, producing eight cascades and 20 
consecutive falls ranging from 15 to 5 meter slopes.