Spain Waterfall

Cascada de Sant Esperit

A 30 m drop.

When to go

Josep Borrut · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

30m

Height

0.83m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Apr–Jun
Oct

Best months

244kW

Water power

estimate

The water at Cascada de Sant Esperit, month by month

It roars from March to May.

The fullest months: from March to May.

1.0 m³/sJan
0.9 m³/sFeb
1.3 m³/sMar
1.5 m³/sApr
1.6 m³/sMay
1.0 m³/sJun
0.4 m³/sJul
0.2 m³/sAug
0.3 m³/sSep
0.7 m³/sOct
0.8 m³/sNov
0.7 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 0.20 m³/s in the lowest month to 1.6 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from April to June and October.

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.

Cascada de Sant Esperit is a waterfall in Spain. The water falls 30 m. It lies within Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park.

Getting there.

Espotnearest town · 16 km in a straight line
Pirineus - la Seu d'Urgel Airport (LEU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 48 km in a straight lineCar hire at LDE airport (Tarbes/Lourdes/Pyrénées)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From April to June and Octoberbest 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.

244 kW

About 0.83 m³/s falling 30 m: the power of the water as it drops.

enough to power about 61 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.

Cascada de Sant Esperit 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 Riu de Sant Nicolau 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 280 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 391 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

3viewpointsMirador de Sant Esperit
2waymarked walking routesEncantats, el Gran Bucle
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
1toilets
3information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
2caves
3campsitesCàmping Taüll, Àrea d'autocaravanes
22hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmCaldas, Refugi d'Estany Llong, Hostal La Plaça and 19 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

Espot16 km in a straight line
Vielha19 km in a straight line
el Pont de Suert20 km in a straight line
Bonansa23 km in a straight line
Sort24 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	2	3	6	10	14	19	22	21	17	13	6	3
Night °C	-6	-6	-3	0	3	8	10	10	6	3	-2	-5
Rain & snow (mm)	60	48	58	72	76	51	42	42	50	61	70	50
Wet days	11	10	11	14	14	10	8	10	10	12	13	11
Sun h/day	4.5	5.5	6.4	6.8	7.8	9.5	10.3	9.4	8.0	6.1	4.8	4.5
Snow on the ground (cm)	16	15	11	8	3	0	0	0	0	2	10	15

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,660 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Cascada de San Esperit — Bhavagati · CC BY-SA 3.0 es

Cascada de Sant Esperit (3) — Bhavagati · CC BY-SA 3.0 es

Vall de Boí - Cascada Sant Esperit — Triedros · CC BY-SA 4.0

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	119%	36%	146%	150%	115%	181%	96%	84%	138%	178%	80%	212%
2021	116%	71%	23%	71%	54%	133%	78%	50%	132%	70%	96%	88%
2022	32%	34%	107%	86%	44%	80%	88%	112%	118%	83%	85%	90%
2023	92%	60%	31%	36%	85%	210%	66%	73%	67%	83%	90%	76%
2024	52%	128%	159%	80%	92%	138%	91%	80%	212%	168%	32%	42%
2025	53%	34%	211%	87%	57%	55%	89%	139%	125%	36%	83%	72%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Cascada de Sant Esperit

Spain

30 mHeight
0.83 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–Jun, OctBest months

La Sallent

Spain

220 mHeight
0.11 m³/sAverage flow
Apr–Jun, OctBest months

See the guide

Salt de Llubriqueto

Spain

85 mHeight
—Average flow
May–Jul, OctBest months

See the guide

Aigualluts

Spain

—Height
0.59 m³/sAverage flow
May–Jul, OctBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q18006720) · CC0
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

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