Gocta Falls

Photo: Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

3.7km
Total Distance
737m
Elevation Gain

Trail description

A steep 3.7 km climb of about 700 m through the San Pablo-Catarata Gocta communal conservation area, passing about 100 m from the Gocta falls and ending at about 2,440 m. Gocta is a perennial waterfall with two drops in Bongará province, Amazonas, flowing into the Cocahuayco River. Although local people had always known it, the wider world only learned of it after a 2002 expedition by the German Stefan Ziemendorff with Peruvian explorers.

Route Map

Along the trail

  1. 1
    Shelter
    at the start
  2. 2
    Shelter · 0.4km
  3. 3
    Viewpoint · 1.1km
  4. 4
    Viewpoint · 1.5km
  5. 5
    Shelter · 3.1km
  6. 6
    Viewpoint · 3.3km
  7. 7
    Viewpoint
    at the end
Surface
natural ground

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Difficulty

3/5 · Moderate