Nojoqui Falls, 80-foot waterfall in Santa Barbara County, California, US.

Nojoqui Falls drops nearly 100 feet over a sandstone wall of the Jalama Formation. The water divides into thin vertical streams that spread near the top and converge lower down, running white and translucent against dark brown and black rock patched with green moss or algae. Vertical ridges and deep shadows frame the fall on both sides.

The falls take their name from the Chumash village of Naxuwi, once located nearby. In 1843 the Mexican government granted the 13,284-acre Rancho Nojoqui to Raimundo Carrillo; the land was patented to him in 1869. In 1896 Swiss immigrant Natale Giorgi bought the land around the falls and established a dairy farm, and in the 1920s his family leased the falls and 40 acres to the county for a public park.

The name comes from the Chumash village of Naxuwi, once located nearby; its meaning is debated, given as meadow, night hawk or honeymoon. Two Chumash legends explain the falls: a woman's garment turning to falling water during a drought, and two lovers leaping from the top rather than be separated.

The falls stand at the end of a short trail south of the parking lot, reached from Highway 101 about five miles south of Buellton via Alisal Road. The trail has been closed since landslides struck near its end on 3 December 2014, when seven hikers were in the area and none were injured. The waterfall is rainfall-dependent and usually dries up in summer, so plan around the wet season.

The falls grow outward from the cliff rather than eroding upstream: calcium and magnesium carbonate dissolve in the stream and are deposited as travertine when the water evaporates. Grooves in the main deposit and a curved notch at the base formed where the rock dissolved back into the stream, as a sign near the falls explains.