Le cascate fanno parte di due parchi nazionali, il [[Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park]] in Zambia ed il [[Victoria Falls National Park]] in Zimbabwe, e sono oggi una delle attrazioni turistiche più importanti del sud del [[Africa|continente africano]]..
The falls are formed as the Zambezi plummets into a narrow chasm (''c.'' 400 ft./120 m wide) carved by its waters along a fracture zone in the earth's crust. Numerous islets at the crest of the falls divide the water to form a series of falls. The thick mist and loud roar produced there are perceptible from a distance of about 25 mi (40 km). Over the centuries, the falls have been receding upstream, falling at different eras into numerous chasms which now form a series of sharply zig-zagging gorges downstream from the falls.
The Boiling Pot, the beginning of the series of gorges (''c.'' 50 mi/80 km long) through which the river flows below the falls, is spanned by a 650 ft. (198 m) long bridge 310 ft. (94 m) above the river, one of only four bridges over the whole course of the Zambezi. The bridge is a very popular ___location for [[bungee jump]]ing.
[[image:Victoria falls mists.jpg|right|Victoria Falls from the far side of the gorge]]
In the wet [[season]], the river discharges as much as 9,100 m³/s (320,000 cubic feet per second) of water. The dry season may see the falls diminish to just a few narrow cascades, with the spray and mist almost absent.
Le cascate Vittoria sono [[patrimonio dell'umanità]] protetto dall'[[UNESCO]].
