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Sartari waterfall

A 80 m drop.

When to go

Cascada de Sartari
BIG4478 · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

80m

Height

May–Jul
Oct

Best months

2,150m

Elevation

The water at Sartari waterfall, month by month

It roars from March to May.

The fullest months: from March to May. Below −4 °C on average (from December to February): the falls can partly freeze.

  1. 66%Jan
  2. 66%Feb
  3. 78%Mar
  4. 90%Apr
  5. 100%May
  6. 71%Jun
  7. 43%Jul
  8. 33%Aug
  9. 39%Sep
  10. 54%Oct
  11. 58%Nov
  12. 49%Dec
high water best months to go may freeze

Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from May to July and October.

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

Sartari waterfall at the Unarre river headwaters (Catalan Pyrenees)

Sartari waterfall is a waterfall in Spain. The water falls 80 m. It lies within High Pyrenees Natural Park.

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

80 mSartariwaterfall1.8 ma person9.0 ma house56 mTower of Pisa93 mStatue ofLiberty

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.

Sartari waterfall 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 river through the falls
2,000 m2,200 mSartari waterfall-0.5 km0+0.5 km← upstreamdownstream →

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
−690 m+690 m

Around the falls the river drops 451 m in 1.2 km. Here the river runs about 177 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

  • —viewpoints
  • 2waymarked walking routesHRP Étape 26, Camí del sol
  • 1car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • —picnic sites
  • —toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmCascada de Llavera
  • —caves
  • 2campsitesCàmping Bordes de Graus, Prat del Salt àrea d'autocaravanes
  • 10hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmLa Creu, Posada d'Àneu, Hotel Bruna and 7 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

  • Espot13 km in a straight line
  • Farrera22 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C-1-13711162019151030
Night °C-9-9-7-404763-1-6-8
Rain & snow (mm)604857717752464650647049
Wet days11101113141181010121211
Sun h/day4.65.56.26.47.49.19.99.17.86.24.94.6
Snow on the ground (cm)15151183000021015

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (2,150 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

PLANELL DE SARTARI - IB-0366
Isidre blanc · 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2020139%33%141%155%123%201%128%132%152%171%114%183%
2021107%97%28%81%64%150%70%55%129%66%114%89%
202230%36%120%81%48%66%69%111%129%62%81%77%
202378%61%28%38%85%227%69%83%55%92%84%74%
202447%101%161%120%100%143%90%70%181%200%31%52%
202537%32%269%88%61%37%140%141%154%28%82%115%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Sartari waterfall

Spain

  • 80 mHeight
  • —Average flow
  • May–Jul, OctBest months

Cascade d'Ars

France

  • 110 mHeight
  • 0.18 m³/sAverage flow
  • Apr–Jun, OctBest months

See the guide

Cascada de Sant Esperit

Spain

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

See the guide

La Sallent

Spain

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

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q91341555) · CC0
ClimateNASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX 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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