ARMENIA

ARMENIA / ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆ

Landscapes.
Shaki Waterfall.
Second stamp in a set of 5, issued on 24.05.1993.
Face value: 0.80 Armenian rubles.
Design: Haroutiun Samuelian (b. 1947).
Printed by House of Questa.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 100,000 copies.
Size: 32 x 63.5 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 216.
- Scott No. 453.
- StampWorld No. 242.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 269.
- Unificato No. 193.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 190.

Shaki Waterfall (Armenian: Շաքիի ջրվեժ) is located in Zangezur Mountains, in Syunik Province, south of the country. It is formed by the Vorotan River, and has a height of 18 m (59 ft). The waterfall is in a protected area, and creates a deep gorge with caves and rocky niches on its slopes. There are remains of Paleolithic settlements in the vicinity. In the 1990s, a small hydroelectric power station was built nearby, to which part of the water that fed the waterfall was diverted; in 2017, the Armenian government decided that, at least during the tourist season, the water would flow completely through the waterfall for most of the day.