Brazil 
In numbers.
5m
Height
Jan–Apr
Best months
1,052m
Elevation
The water at Cachoeira da Purificação, month by month
It roars from December to April.
The fullest months: from December to April. The thinnest: from August to September.
- 99%Jan
- 88%Feb
- 100%Mar
- 96%Apr
- 59%May
- 39%Jun
- 27%Jul
- 22%Aug
- 14%Sep
- 36%Oct
- 74%Nov
- 77%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from January to April.
Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.
Cachoeira da Purificação is a waterfall in Brazil. The water falls 5 m. It lies within Chapada Diamantina National Park.
Getting there.
- Lençóisnearest town · 16 km in a straight line
- Glauber de Andrade Rocha Airport (VDC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 257 km in a straight lineCar hire at VDC airport (Vitória da Conquista)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From January to Aprilbest months to go (estimate)
Plan your visit
Stay, explore and get there
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How big is it?
How big it really is.
Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.
Seen from the sky.
8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.
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Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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.
Around the falls the river drops 283 m in 3.5 km. Here the river runs about 196 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- 4viewpoints
- —waymarked walking routes
- —car parks
- 1swimming spotsPoço Anunciação
- —picnic sites
- —toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 3other named waterfalls within 4 kmPoço Angélica, Cascata Angélica, Cascade
- —caves
- 12campsitesCirco do Capão, Novo Horizonte, Toca do Gaúcho and 9 more
- 14hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmIlha de Mato - local certo, Guapira, Espaço Vaidya Ayurveda and 11 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
- Lençóis16 km in a straight line
- Palmeiras17 km in a straight line
- Andaraí23 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 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 28 |
| Night °C | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 16 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 112 | 84 | 107 | 93 | 47 | 44 | 36 | 34 | 24 | 66 | 99 | 84 |
| Wet days | 12 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 11 |
| Sun h/day | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 6.8 | 7.6 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,052 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.
Photos
Through visitors' eyes.
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 | 176% | 41% | 190% | 165% | 107% | 105% | 128% | 99% | 94% | 209% | 202% | 4% |
| 2021 | 19% | 61% | 10% | 123% | 11% | 70% | 32% | 83% | 13% | 171% | 244% | 539% |
| 2022 | 107% | 51% | 98% | 86% | 45% | 43% | 145% | 47% | 82% | 17% | 183% | 363% |
| 2023 | 75% | 44% | 81% | 43% | 152% | 49% | 201% | 37% | 84% | 5% | 41% | 41% |
| 2024 | 142% | 215% | 31% | 98% | 129% | 155% | 89% | 96% | 63% | 43% | 56% | 4% |
| 2025 | 48% | 39% | 19% | 112% | 165% | 602% | 82% | 47% | 89% | 48% | 130% | 86% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Cachoeira da Purificação
Brazil
- 5 mHeight
- —Average flow
- Jan–AprBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q115755636) · 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.
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