Has been known for centuries to the local residents in Pru's province of Chachapoyas in Amazonas, which is approximately 700 kilometers to the north-east of Lima. This colonies of endemic yellow-tailed monkeys (that exists only in northern eastern Peru) and unique bird species not normally found at this altitude or anywhere else. The northern and more tropical circuit of Peru has more species of birds than all North America and Europe combined. Located at a fairly high altitude beside the equator, every day has perfect semi-tropical temperatures. Serious ecological tourists prefer Ecuador to southern Peru, and our Dept. of Amazonas shares this spectacular ecology, but with even more zest!.
Its existence was made public following an expedition in 2005 by German Stefan Ziemendorff with a group of Peruvian explorers. At the time of his discovery he successfully persuaded the Peruvian government to map the falls and to measure their height. On 11 March 2006, following his third expedition to the falls, he held a press conference, the contents of which were published by several of the world's wire services. He stated that the total height was accurately measured at 771 meters (2,532 feet), based on outdated and incomplete information gleaned from the National Geographic Society, which ranked Gocta as the third tallest free-leaping waterfall in world after Angel Falls in Venezuela and Tugela Falls in South Africa.
