India has a wide variety of waterfalls. Some of the significant waterfalls in India are Jog Falls, Dhuandhar Falls, Chitrakoot Falls, Kutralam Falls, Rajrappa Falls, and Hundru Falls. An area of a stream or river where waterfalls over a vertical drop or a succession of steep drops is called a waterfall.
Waterfalls are created when meltwater spills over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Where lakes pour into valleys in high mountains in a river’s upper course, waterfalls frequently emerge.
| Sahastradhara Falls | Located near Dehradun, Formed by liquidification of limestone rocks |
| Elephanta Falls | Located at Shillong (Meghalaya), since it looks like the face of elephant, it was named as elephanta water fall by the britishers |
| Chuliya Falls | Kota on River Chambal |
| Dhuandhar Falls | Located at Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) on river Narmada An example of nick point & represents rejuvanation |
| Rajrappa Falls | Located at the confluence of the Damodar & Bhairavi (locally called Bhera) rivers – Ramgarh (Jharkhand) |
| Hundru Falls | On river Suvarnrekha at Ranchi (Jharkhand) Represents nick point & rejuvanation |
| Joranda Falls | At Shimlipal National Park of Mayurbhanj district of Orissa |
| Duduma Falls | On river Machkund, nearby Koraput district (Orissa) Also known as Matsya Tirth |
| Kapildhara Falls | Located in Amarkantak district of MP Lies at a distance of 6 km from the Narmada Kund Cascade gets its name from the famous sage Kapil, who had written ‘Sankhya Philosophy’ an advance treatise on mathematics in the Kapil ashram. |
| Yenna fall | Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra |
| Dudhsagar fall | On Mondovi River in Goa |
| Gokak fall | A horseshoe shaped waterfall, located at Belgaum district of Karnataka on river Gokak |
| Mekedaatu fall | At river Kaveri in Bangaluru (Karnataka) |
| Jog fall (Gersoppa) | At river Sharavati at Maharashtra On Karnataka border (Highest in India) |
| Shivasamundram fall | On river Kaveri at Bangalore |
| Hogenakal fall | On river kaveri at Taminlanu |
| Pykara fall | On river Pykara on Nilgiri hills at Ooty |
| Vattaparai fall | At Palani national park on river Pazhayar in Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu) |
| Soochipara fall | A 3 tiered waterfall in Wayanand district of Kerala |
| Meenmutty fall | Meenmutty literally means “where fishes are blocked” in Malyalam Located in Kerala |
| Vazhachal fall | Located on Chalakkudy river in Kerala |
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