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4 unusual facts about Kaieteur Falls


A. J. Seymour

Suns In My Blood (1945) contained at least three poems that have come to be considered classics: "Sun Is a Shapely Fire", "There Runs a Dream", and "The Legend of Kaieteur" (this last poem was later set to music by the Guyanese composer Philip Pilgrim).

Corymbophanes

Neither of these species are found downstream of the Kaieteur Falls.

Potaro River

Nine waterfalls are found on the Potaro River, most notable being Kaieteur Falls and Tumatumari Falls.

The White Diamond

Most of the film focuses on Dorrington's flights near Kaieteur Falls, in Guyana.



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The White Diamond

The film also explores the Kaieteur Falls themselves, a local man named Marc Anthony Yhap, a local diamond miner, and the white-tipped swifts (Aeronautes montivagus) which roost in an inaccessible cave behind the falls.