The dam is 206 feet high and 8,422 feet long. Kentucky Dam is a hydroelectric facility. It has five generating units with a net dependable capacity of 184 megawatts. Net dependable capacity is the amount of power a dam can produce on an average day, minus the electricity used by the dam itself.
Waimea Canyon, Hawaii, USA Holding the title for the largest canyon in the Pacific, Waimea Canyon makes its home on the island of Kauai. The canyon is 10 miles long, 1 mile wide, and 3,600 feet deep.
When John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon in 1869, he was confronted with a daunting landscape. At its highest point, the serpentine gorge plunged 1,829 meters (6,000 feet) from rim to river bottom, making it one of the deepest canyons in the United States.