About Cascada de Pedrosa de Tobalina
The Cascada de Pedrosa de Tobalina was where the Río Jerea plunged some 10-15m over a wide slab of bedrock within the namesake town of Pedrosa de Tobalina. Unlike most of the waterfalls that we had seen throughout Spain to this point, this was the only one on our 2015 trip that was supposed to be much wider than it was tall. However, as you can see from the picture at the top of this page, the waterflow was on the low side so the waterfall was essentially segmented into two smaller waterfalls at the opposite ends of the exposed bedrock slab. I’ve seen in the literature under more normal flow (probably in the Winter and early Spring months on a year with healthy rainfall) that the segmentation was less pronounced.
This was probably one of the easiest and most convenient waterfalls for us to visit. After finding parking along the main street of the relatively quiet town of Pedrosa de Tobalina (see directions below), we then walked to the signposted footpaths leading to both the top and bottom of the falls. Speaking of the signposts, there was a sign here that said “Cascada El Penon” (or more accurately “Cascada El Peñón”), so I have to believe that this waterfall was also called by this name.
Beyond the signpost, we first walked on the upper path to the left, which led us a few paces (probably two minutes or so) to the brink of the waterfall (the vantage point you see in the photo at the top of this page). After having our fill of this spot, we then walked the lower path to the right of the fork, which was paved as it descended past some building before reaching the edge of the large plunge pool of the falls. We had to be a bit cautious on the downhill because it had been raining earlier in the day so the concrete surface was a bit slippery. Anyways, it only took us 2-3 minutes to get down to the bottom, where we were able to get a partially obstructed view of the entire width of the falls. I’m sure under more flow, the obstructions wouldn’t have had as much of a visual impact.
At the base of the falls, we saw some very large chunks of bedrock partially submerged in the plunge pool. This attested to the process of erosion where I’m sure there were episodes of higher flow on the river causing or at least accelerating this process thereby “moving” the brink of the falls further upstream. We also noticed some people were walking further upstream from the brink of the falls, which suggested to us that it was possible to walk a longer trail (possibly allowing walkers to notice even more things about the falls than just what could be seen from the two lookout spots we had visited). In any case, we can’t really say more about these other trails because we didn’t do them.
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