Brazil Waterfall

Cachoeira Acutumã

One of the waterfalls of Brazil.

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

In numbers.

Mar–Jun

Best months

334m

Elevation

The water at Cachoeira Acutumã, month by month

It roars from April to June.

The fullest months: from April to June. The thinnest: from September to December.

36%Jan
56%Feb
70%Mar
94%Apr
100%May
75%Jun
50%Jul
28%Aug
12%Sep
6%Oct
6%Nov
18%Dec

high water best months to go

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from March to June.

Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Cachoeira Acutumã is a waterfall in Brazil.

Getting there.

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From March to Junebest months to go (estimate)

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Seen from the sky.

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

Cachoeira Acutumã 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.

What is around.

—viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
—campsites
—hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
—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).

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	30	28	28	27	27	27	28	29	32	34	34	32
Night °C	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	22	22	22
Rain & snow (mm)	168	213	240	313	296	191	144	88	45	43	50	119
Wet days	24	24	26	27	28	24	21	15	9	8	10	18
Sun h/day	5.3	4.7	4.9	5.3	6.2	7.1	7.6	7.9	8.4	7.9	7.1	5.8

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (334 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

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	48%	47%	108%	148%	84%	118%	112%	122%	103%	65%	223%	95%
2021	104%	81%	50%	66%	72%	70%	176%	100%	178%	271%	272%	136%
2022	146%	89%	171%	78%	136%	68%	129%	60%	108%	119%	165%	156%
2023	117%	132%	74%	40%	69%	95%	51%	46%	19%	57%	33%	83%
2024	98%	51%	84%	68%	114%	132%	64%	23%	10%	66%	54%	86%
2025	74%	97%	100%	44%	40%	100%	90%	65%	79%	41%	28%	41%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Cachoeira Acutumã

Brazil

—Height
—Average flow
Mar–JunBest months

Cachoeira Macacoara

Brazil

—Height
408 m³/sAverage flow
Mar–JunBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q9671787) · CC0
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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.