Kaieteur Falls which is one of the longest and widest rivers in South America and the longest river in Guyana. The falls were discovered by Europeans in 1870 by a party led by Charles Barrington Brown, a British geologist appointed as a government surveyor to the colony of British Guiana. Brown and his partner James Sawkins had arrived in Georgetown in 1867, and while they did some of their mapping and preparation of geological reports together, some work was performed in separate expeditions, and Sawkins was taking a break from his work at the time of Brown's discovery of Kaieteur. At this
Kaieteur National Park trail to the Korume Creek, then up the Korume Creek to its source, then to and including Menzies landing on the left bank of the Potaro River, then across the Potaro River to its right bank, then inland for a , then downwards and parallel to the right bank of the Potaro River to an unnamed tributary about below the foot of Tukeit Falls, then down the left bank of that tributary to the Potaro River, then to the point of origin. In 1999 the Park's area was increased from to by a Presidential Order. Kaieteur National Park Kaieteur National