The Salto Grande is a

waterfall A waterfall is any point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in seve ...

on the Paine River, after the Nordenskjöld Lake, within the Torres del Paine National Park in

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. In the vicinity of Salto Grande are a variety of natural vegetation forms as well as certain

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species, including the wild

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.C. Michael Hogan. 2008

Notes

* C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Guanaco: Lama guanicoe'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Strömberg
* Haas Mroue, Kristina Schreck and Michael Luongo. 2005. ''Frommer's Argentina & Chile'', third edition, Published by

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UCAR Digital Image Library photo, Salto Grande, Chile
Waterfalls of Chile Landforms of Magallanes Region Torres del Paine National Park {{waterfall-stub

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