Skip to content
Cascadyas
EN

Argentina Argentina Waterfall

Waterfall Nahiara

A 6 m drop.

When to go

Cascada Nahiara - Base
Jonatan Mamani · CC BY-SA 4.0

In numbers.

6m

Height

Dec–Mar

Best months

140m

Elevation

The water at Waterfall Nahiara, month by month

It roars from July to September and from November to April.

It carries water fairly evenly through the year.

  1. 100%Jan
  2. 93%Feb
  3. 85%Mar
  4. 85%Apr
  5. 70%May
  6. 70%Jun
  7. 78%Jul
  8. 82%Aug
  9. 75%Sep
  10. 70%Oct
  11. 82%Nov
  12. 95%Dec
high water best months to go

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

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

Waterfall Nahiara, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego

Waterfall Nahiara is a waterfall in Argentina. The water falls 6 m.

Getting there.

  • Ushuaianearest town · 4.7 km in a straight line
  • Parking 2,170 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
  • Ushuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire in UshuaiaDiscover Cars · Affiliate link
  • From December to Marchbest months to go (estimate)

Plan your visit

Stay, explore and get there

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

How big is it?

How big it really is.

6.0 mWaterfallNahiara1.8 ma person9.0 ma house

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.

Waterfall Nahiara 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.

  • 1viewpointsMirador Wallner
  • 1waymarked walking routessandero laguna del caminante
  • 2car parks
  • —swimming spots
  • —picnic sites
  • —toilets
  • —information boards and visitor centres
  • —bus stops within 1 km
  • 1other named waterfalls within 4 kmLa Macarena
  • —caves
  • 5campsitesCamping Municipal, Free Camping Rio Pipo, Puente and 2 more
  • 95hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmUshuaia Cabañas Hannus, Apart Hotel Aires del Beagle, Hostal "Los Coihues" and 92 more
  • 7restaurants 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

  • Ushuaia4.7 km in a straight line

Weather

The weather, month by month.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon °C1112107422358911
Night °C55421-1-2-10134
Rain & snow (mm)787065675358504644446273
Wet days221818171717161514161821
Sun h/day6.15.64.02.72.01.41.62.23.64.95.86.2
Snow on the ground (cm)11281217161412852

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (140 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Cascada Nahiara Invierno
Jonatan Mamani · 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
2020134%302%105%49%98%90%61%141%126%104%61%89%
202158%78%211%89%100%53%112%103%53%76%505%53%
2022108%55%126%66%84%83%82%85%59%81%34%84%
202356%97%115%71%57%47%63%103%70%93%115%73%
202475%96%108%136%142%54%97%92%79%81%110%100%
202582%112%105%65%106%74%67%51%77%82%136%111%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

About these numbers

Names, height, width, riverWikidata (Q96210616) · 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.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers or canyons?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.