Cascada de Cusárare, Natural waterfall in Sierra Madre Occidental, Guachochi, Mexico.
Cascada de Cusárare is a permanent 30-metre fall on the stream of the same name, in the Sierra Tarahumara pine forest of Guachochi municipality, Chihuahua. The main stream drops in a thin white column down a vertically fractured cliff of orange-brown and grey rock, with a second, thinner stream sliding down the lighter rock to its right. The water collects in a small dark green pool ringed by pale, rounded boulders.
The waterfall lies about 2 km from the Rarámuri mission and community of Cusárare, in Guachochi Municipality, Chihuahua. The name comes from Rarámuri and means "the eaglets" or "place of eagles". The falls drop 30 m on the Cusárare stream at roughly 2,150 m above sea level, surrounded by pine forest in the Sierra Tarahumara.
The name Cusárare comes from Rarámuri and means "the eagles" or "place of eagles". The falls lie 2 km from the mission and community of the same name, home to Rarámuri (Tarahumara) people. The site sits at about 2,150 m in the Sierra Tarahumara, surrounded by pine forest.
The falls flow year-round, with the highest volume from July to September. Access is on foot only: a fairly flat path of 2 to 3 km starts beside Cusárare village, about 25 km southeast of Creel, and the falls lie 2.8 km from the nearest drivable road. Many tours leave from Creel.
The Rarámuri name Cusárare means "the eaglets" or "place of eagles", as the Hungarian source renders it. The falls drop about 30 m from the Cusárare stream at roughly 2,150 m above sea level, and the walk in from the village of the same name covers about 2.8 km.
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