Mexico Waterfall

Eyipantla Falls

A 50 m drop on the Río Grande de Catemaco.

When to go

AlejandroLinaresGarcia · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

50m

Height

20m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Aug–Nov

Best months

10.0MW

Water power

estimate

The water at Eyipantla Falls, month by month

It roars from September to October.

The fullest months: from September to October. The thinnest: from January to May.

11 m³/sJan
7.0 m³/sFeb
4.8 m³/sMar
3.4 m³/sApr
5.2 m³/sMay
15 m³/sJun
22 m³/sJul
29 m³/sAug
40 m³/sSep
44 m³/sOct
33 m³/sNov
18 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 3.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 44 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from August to November.

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.

Waterfalls in Mexico

Eyipantla Falls is a waterfall on the Río Grande de Catemaco, in Mexico. The water falls 50 m over a front 40 m wide.

Getting there.

El Salto de Eyipantlanearest town · 0.7 km in a straight line
Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos International Airport (MTT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 73 km in a straight lineCar hire at VER airport (Veracruz)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
From August to Novemberbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

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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.

10.0 MW

About 20 m³/s falling 50 m: the power of the water as it drops.

as much as 3.3 large wind turbines
enough to power about 2,500 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.

Eyipantla Falls seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

ViewpointsOther falls

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

The river 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 84 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 31 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

1viewpoints
—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
7hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmGaia Paraíso, Hotel Mediterraneo, Villa Ranchoapan 2 and 4 more
2restaurants 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

El Salto de Eyipantla0.7 km in a straight line
Cerro las Iguanas3.0 km in a straight line
El Huidero3.0 km in a straight line
Comoapan4.3 km in a straight line
Chuniapan de Arriba5.0 km in a straight line
Cuesta Amarilla5.1 km in a straight line
Calería5.8 km in a straight line
Ohuilapam6.1 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	23	24	26	29	31	30	28	28	28	27	25	24
Night °C	19	20	21	23	24	25	25	26	25	24	22	20
Rain & snow (mm)	100	53	41	30	84	209	246	294	386	384	216	96
Wet days	12	8	6	6	12	23	27	28	27	22	18	14
Sun h/day	4.1	5.3	6.9	7.7	7.6	7.3	7.8	7.2	5.7	5.3	4.9	4.5

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (147 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Al pie de la cascada, Salto de Eyipantla. - panoramio — ed_devilinside · CC BY-SA 3.0

Cascada de Eyipantla — Didaskalia edu · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cascada Salto de Eyipantla — Koffermejia · 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	204%	270%	84%	118%	224%	143%	58%	105%	98%	72%	188%	151%
2021	140%	91%	77%	181%	123%	150%	74%	91%	60%	99%	65%	54%
2022	142%	101%	48%	183%	130%	166%	72%	83%	133%	68%	107%	191%
2023	85%	129%	132%	50%	56%	35%	138%	68%	43%	48%	95%	244%
2024	85%	50%	36%	120%	14%	160%	117%	107%	79%	152%	35%	56%
2025	193%	150%	36%	31%	128%	139%	76%	85%	69%	100%	84%	253%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Eyipantla Falls

Mexico

50 mHeight
20 m³/sAverage flow
Aug–NovBest months

Hierve el Agua

Mexico

—Height
—Average flow
Jul–OctBest months

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Cascada de Texolo

Mexico

24 mHeight
2.5 m³/sAverage flow
Jul–OctBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q6117554) · 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.