Lisbon Falls, Waterfall in Graskop, South Africa
Lisbon Falls is a waterfall on the Panorama Route in Mpumalanga Province that drops about 94 meters in a single plunge into Lisbon Creek. The water then continues its path toward the Blyde River, while the rocks below show the marks of decades of water erosion.
Lisbon Falls takes its name from Lisbon Creek and the farm Lisbon on whose land it lies, not from the Portuguese capital. The falls sit just outside the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, like Berlin Falls, Lone Creek and Mac-Mac Falls, and are a stop on the Panorama Route beside the R532 north of Graskop.
The falls take their name from Lisbon Creek and the Farm Lisbon on whose land they sit; the Hebrew Wikipedia instead links the name to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The R532 carries the falls' section of the Panorama Route, the driving circuit that brings visitors past God's Window and the Blyde River Canyon.
Lisbon Falls sits beside the R532 road a short distance north of Graskop, on the Panorama Route and just outside the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve. The falls are reached directly from the roadside, and the Berlin Falls lie nearby for a combined stop.
The falls lie on Lisbon Creek, a right-bank tributary of the Blyde River, just outside the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve. The farm beneath them, Lisbon, gave both creek and falls their name; the Portuguese capital is not the source, despite what some summaries claim.
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