Why did Ecuador's largest waterfall disappear? | MNN - Mother Nature Network
Why did Ecuador's largest waterfall disappear? | MNN - Mother Nature Network Why did Ecuador's largest waterfall disappear? A highlight of the landscape in Ecuador's Cayambe Coca Park, the San Rafael waterfall is now little more than a trickle. MICHAEL D'ESTRIES March 28, 2020, 9:01 a.m. Tweet 9 Save The San Rafael waterfall shown in 2012. But earlier this year, the waterfall had almost completely stopped flowing. (Photo: Ministerio de Turismo Ecuador [CC BY-SA 2.0] /Flickr) Earlier this year, the 500-foot-tall San Rafael waterfall in the Ecuadorian Amazon seemed to vanish. The country's largest waterfall in both height and volume, its disappearance wasn't caused by a sudden drop in water levels, but instead because the Coca River decided to literally "drop." A few meters behind the waterfall, a gigantic hole opened up, changing the riverbed and diverting the river through a nearby arch that survived the ...