The Shirabad Waterfall ( fa, آبشار شیرآباد) is a waterfall in the

Alborz mountain range The Alborz ( fa, البرز) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs nort ...

, at the village of Shirabad in the

Fenderesk District Fenderesk ( fa, فندرسک) is a district (bakhsh) in Golestan Province in northern Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 34,326, in 8,206 families. Khan Bebin ( fa, خان بهبین) is the district's only city. The district contains t ...

of Golestan Province, northern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. It is in a forested area, 7 kilometers south of Khanbebin.

Description

Shirabad Waterfall is in the form of a stairway cascade and includes 12 large and small waterfalls. Its largest waterfall is high and its

plunge pool A plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake) is a deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall or Shut-in (river), shut-in. It is created by the erosion, erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at formation's base wher ...

is deep. There are several caves nearby, which are home to the critically endangered Gorgan salamander.

Description

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