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 has the rare and added bonus of allowing you to see and feel the falls from its backside. This is all thanks to the work of Tomás Bernal who built the trail. As if that weren't enough, there's a calm lagoon of reddish water set in a sandy beach before both waterfalls perfect for cooling off from the equatorial tropical heat. I believe there are quite a few tour groups that take in this falls as part of the

Sapito Falls sits in a lush recessed opening next to Sapo Falls and is difficult to photograph from the sandy beach across the Sapo Lagoon. The same path that takes you across the backside of Salto El Sapo also leads to the wide rim at the top of Salto El Sapito. We were lucky enough to see an iguana resting on a rock on top of the falls.

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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