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Is 551 hands as long as Gocta Falls?

It's about one-fifteenth as tall as Gocta Falls
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The height of Gocta Falls is about 7,590 hands.
(a.k.a. Gocta Cataracts, a.k.a. Catarata del Gocta) (Amazonas, Peru) (total height)
Gocta Falls, a waterfall on the Cocahuayco River, measures 7,590 hands in total height. Although it sits just 413,000 hands from the major city of Chachapoyas, the waterfall was unknown to non-locals until it was documented during a 2005 expedition by a German economist.
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