Sapo Falls and Sapito Falls (Salto El Sapo y Salto El Sapito)

Sapo Falls (Salto El Sapo in Spanish) and Sapito Falls (Salto El Sapito meaning "Little Sapo Falls" in Spanish) are waterfalls tumbling into their own lagoon in an offshoot of the Carrao River (El Río Carrao). The larger waterfall was interesting in that it allowed us to see and feel the falls from its backside. As a matter of fact, the trail itself passed right behind the waterfall on its way to the other side. I understand that the trail for this waterfall was thanks to the work of Tomás Bernal who apparently built this trail.

Another interesting bit about this waterfall and its large lagoon was that the water itself had a bit of reddish color. Little did we know that this was going to be a common feature further along our Angel Falls trip. The sandy beach before both waterfalls was also a good place to chill out when we were taking a dip in the lagoon to cool off from the equatorial tropical heat.

I believe there are quite a few tour groups that take in this falls as part of the Angel Falls experience. That was because we saw multiple tour groups here in addition to our own.

Sapito Falls sits in a lush recessed opening next to Sapo Falls. This one was a more difficult to photograph from the sandy beach across the Sapo Lagoon. However, the same path that took us across the backside of Salto El Sapo also led us to the wide rim at the top of Salto El Sapito. We were even lucky enough to see an iguana resting on a rock on top of the falls.

Directions: We saw this waterfall automatically as part of our Angel Falls tour. This trail started besides our camp, and this particular side excursion took us about 2.5 hours to complete before returning to camp.

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Frontal view of Salto El Sapo from across the lagoon

People cooling off in the Sapo Lagoon before the falls

The hard-to-see Sapito Falls behind swimmers deep in the lagoon

The trail behind Salto El Sapo

The brink of Sapito Falls

Iguana resting on a rock atop Sapito Falls

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Left to right sweep of the lagoon with the falls in the background and lots of people swimming in the lagoon itself

Right to left sweep of the other side of the falls

Dark sweep from the top of the falls

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• November 20, 2007

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