{"id":78970,"date":"2026-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/?p=78970"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:29:20","slug":"ezaro-waterfall-a-splendid-natural-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/blog-en\/ezaro-waterfall-a-splendid-natural-sight","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9ZARO WATERFALL, A SPLENDID NATURAL SIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The river Xallas, which takes its name from the district that it crosses, has its sources on the western slopes of Monte Castelo. It runs through some flat land at an altitude of 300 to 400 m for most of its course, until it passes the Fervenza pool<\/a>. From here, it flows through more uneven terrain and narrows, forming barrier lakes from Ponte Olveira <\/a>to Santa Ux\u00eda. From the latter to its mouth, the slope increases, as does the flow rate of its waters, forming rapids and small waterfalls, until it drops over a vertical granite ramp almost 40 m high, giving rise to the spectacular \u00c9zaro Waterfall<\/a>, also known as O Cadoiro (the Cascade). It is a unique natural occurrence, since no other river in Europe with a similar flow rate flows out to sea over a waterfall like this one and in a setting as unusual as that of the mythical Monte Pindo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Sarmiento, on his journey around Galicia in 1745, crossed this river on the Barca dos Cregos, the Cleric\u2019s Boat that linked the parishes of Santa Ux\u00eda and Arcos, since there was no bridge in this area. He says that here the river \u00c9zaro \u201carrives having fallen from a great height and is going to plummet into the sea in a little more than half a league\u201d and he adds: \u201cI could not get there to see how it plummets down, but I came very close to the place and I found out that it falls, not making a torrent or cataract, but by plummeting down and making a cascade and making a pool of immense depth, and dangerous, and rising like a mountain of foam and dust, since the \u00c9zaro carries a great deal of water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otero Pedrayo also mentioned this extraordinary waterfall and left us these words: \u201cBetween the two [Monte \u00c9zaro and Pindo], the river Xallas drops under the water. The hydroelectric power plant has considerably affected the beauty of this limpid, sonorous fall. The entire river drops down over a bare rock slab.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, this natural spectacle can only be enjoyed to the full on certain days in times of heavy rain, when the spillway gates of the Santa Ux\u00eda dam are opened. The rest of the year a waterfall can be seen with the ecological flow rate that is required by law, which can increase on some days at certain hours, if Xeal, the company that owns the dams and hydroelectric plants, permits a greater flow of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several legends associated with this waterfall and the Cadoiro pool. On the rocks over which the water vapour rises after the spectacular falls there is a cave with a rectangular entrance called the Vent\u00e1 das Bruxas (the Witches\u2019 Window), about which it is said that it was the entrance to a corridor that led under the falls to a luxurious room where an enchanted princess lived. Any man who dared to break the spell would have to overcome a series of trials and, if he succeeded, he would marry her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the car park provided for visiting the falls, there is a very steep road up to the \u00c9zaro lookout point<\/a>, which stands on a platform. From here you can enjoy impressive views over the mouth of the river Xallas, Monte Pindo<\/a> and part of the Corcubi\u00f3n r\u00eda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join Dumbr\u00eda through \u201c\u00c9ZARO WATERFALL, A SPLENDID NATURAL SIGHT\u201d. A great starting point to discover the municipality\u2014no rush, no clich\u00e9s. Tip: look out for cascada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":76955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"\u00c9ZARO WATERFALL, A SPLENDID NATURAL SIGHT - Costa da Morte","description":"Join Dumbr\u00eda through \u201c\u00c9ZARO WATERFALL, A SPLENDID NATURAL SIGHT\u201d. A great starting point to discover the municipality\u2014no rush, no clich\u00e9s. Tip: look out for cas"},"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[650],"tags":[125,1319,1429],"class_list":["post-78970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","tag-dumbria-en","tag-naturally-unique","tag-o-ezaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81465,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78970\/revisions\/81465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}