Mexico Waterfall

Basaseachic Falls

A 246 m drop.

When to go

Armando185 · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

246m

Height

OpenStreetMap

0.70m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Jul–Sep

Best months

1.7MW

Water power

estimate

The water at Basaseachic Falls, month by month

It roars from July to August.

The fullest months: from July to August. The thinnest: from November to June.

0.3 m³/sJan
0.3 m³/sFeb
0.2 m³/sMar
0.1 m³/sApr
0.1 m³/sMay
0.3 m³/sJun
2.2 m³/sJul
2.7 m³/sAug
2.0 m³/sSep
0.9 m³/sOct
0.4 m³/sNov
0.2 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 0.05 m³/s in the lowest month to 2.7 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from July to September.

Estimate: the timing comes from rain, snowmelt and evaporation (NASA POWER, 1991–2020); the amounts from the river model of HydroATLAS (WaterGAP, 1971–2000). Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Waterfall in Chihuahua, Mexico

Basaseachic Falls is a waterfall in Mexico. The water falls 246 m. It lies within Basaseachic Falls National Park.

Getting there.

Basaseachinearest town · 3.1 km in a straight line
Parking 800 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Ciudad Obregón International Airport (CEN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 182 km in a straight lineCar hire at CEN airport (Ciudad Obregón)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From July to Septemberbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

Height of the drop as mapped in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

1.7 MW

About 0.70 m³/s falling 246 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 421 homes, if it were all turned into electricity

Power of falling water = density × gravity × flow × height. Average flow and height as shown above; an estimate.

Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

Basaseachic Falls seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Barranca Cadameña through the falls

The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.

The valley below the falls

Around the falls the river drops 327 m in 1.8 km. Here the river runs about 304 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

5viewpointsCascada de Basaseachi, Mirador Cascada Basaseachi, La Ventana and 2 more
—waymarked walking routes
2car parks
—swimming spots
1picnic sites
1toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
1campsites
7hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmRancho San Lorenzo Basaseachi, Cabañas Rincon, Cabañas los Pinos and 4 more
—restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

Basaseachi3.1 km in a straight line
Melchor Ocampo15 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	15	16	19	23	27	30	27	26	24	22	18	14
Night °C	0	0	2	5	8	13	14	13	12	8	4	0
Rain & snow (mm)	34	30	16	8	7	67	237	200	113	46	26	26
Wet days	4	4	2	1	2	11	27	25	16	6	4	4
Sun h/day	8.6	9.3	10.8	12.1	13.0	11.2	8.0	8.6	9.0	9.8	9.2	8.5
Snow on the ground (cm)	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,943 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Cascada de Basaseachi, Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua — Comisión Mexicana de Filmaciones from México D. F., México · CC BY-SA 2.0

Cascada de basaseachi, chihuahua. - panoramio — M.C. JORGE M. MEJÍA … · CC BY-SA 3.0

Cascada de Basaseachi 1 — Armando185 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Recent years

Wet years and dry years

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A wet season above 100 % usually means a fuller waterfall.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	34%	171%	401%	141%	128%	57%	66%	30%	51%	0%	6%	79%
2021	138%	42%	5%	0%	59%	150%	71%	94%	59%	10%	60%	225%
2022	0%	29%	0%	0%	0%	226%	74%	151%	91%	61%	1%	74%
2023	17%	51%	196%	4%	351%	4%	34%	47%	35%	79%	28%	12%
2024	69%	27%	12%	37%	0%	61%	79%	60%	16%	7%	6%	0%
2025	45%	1%	2%	4%	41%	175%	67%	50%	120%	67%	32%	13%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Basaseachic Falls

Mexico

246 mHeight
0.70 m³/sAverage flow
Jul–SepBest months

Piedra Volada

Mexico

—Height
—Average flow
Jul–OctBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q604335) · CC0
Height of the drop	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
River flow and catchment	HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons