Frederico Ahlfeld Falls

Coordinates:	13.7576 S 60.9786 W
No:	295        (list of all attractions)
Category:	Waterfalls
Values:	Geology, Visual
Rank:	5
Address:	South America, Bolivia, Santa Cruz, northern part of Caparu Meseta, Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, on Rio Paucerna downstreams from Arcoiris Falls
UNESCO World Heritage status:	"Noel Kempff Mercado National Park", 2000, No.967
Height:	circa 25 - 45 m
Drops:	1 main drop and many smaller ones anove and below
Width:	circa 60 m
Stream:	Rio Paucerna (Pausema, Pauserna)

Frederico Ahlfeld Falls.
Viajeros, CC BY-SA 2.0

Frederico Ahlfeld Falls.
Pattrön, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

One of the most magnificent waterfalls in Bolivia is Frederico Ahlfeld Falls. This waterfall is approximately 45 m tall and roughly 60 m wide and is located in the enormous, exotic Noel Kempff Mercado National Park.

Waterfall is named after the outstanding Bolivian geologist Frederico Ahlfeld (1892 - 1982) - "Father of Bolivian Geology". It is located approximately 6 km downstreams from another waterfall - even more impressive Arcoiris Falls.

Caparu Meseta

Paucerna river comes from an enormous tableland - the 3,000 km² large Caparu Meseta. This is an unique plateau. For most part it is delimited with vertical cliff walls, which are up to 300 m high. It has extremely high biological diversity. On the plateau have developed several kinds of rare ecosystems, including a unique dry forest - the largest virgin Cerrado forest in the world. Here has been established the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (1 583 810 ha) - UNESCO World Heritage site.