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Which is the highest waterfall in India?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Kunchikal Falls
Kunchikal Falls in Karnataka, on the Varahi river, is the highest waterfall in India at about 455 metres. It is a tiered fall and much of its flow is now diverted for hydroelectric generation, so it is far less spectacular than it once was and less visited. Jog Falls, also in Karnataka, on the Sharavathi, is the better known and is often wrongly called the highest. At about 253 metres it is the highest plunge fall - one that drops in a single uninterrupted leap rather than in tiers - which is the distinction the two answers turn on. Its flow too is reduced by the Linganamakki dam upstream. Dudhsagar on the Goa–Karnataka border and Athirappilly in Kerala are both on the Western Ghats and both smaller. Almost all India’s major waterfalls are on the Western Ghats or on the edge of the Deccan plateau, where rivers descend abruptly from the uplands.
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