Waterfall at Buttes-Chaumont Park

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This thirteen-story waterfall, in the Buttes-Chaumont park in the northeastern corner of the city, is one of the least-known and most unusual sights of the city of Paris. The waterfall, which is supplied by the Canal Saint-Martin, drops 32 metres into a grotto (from which this photo was taken), and then flows into a lake. The waterfall, like most of the park, is part natural and part artificial—natural features in the land were enhanced to produce a park with astonishing differences in elevation from one spot to another.

Photographed on June 18, 2000.