Access:

- EN 122, direction Corte Gafo de Cima and direction Amendoeira da Serra /“Pulo do Lobo”. After 9 km turn right  on the cross to Amendoeira da Serra. In this village follow the signs to Pulo do Lobo just to the begginning of the route about 7 km from this last village.

Pulo do Lobo has signaled access by the left riverbank of Guadiana, in the road Mértola - Serpa, next to Vale do Poço village; and by the right bank, on the road Mértola - Beja (IC27), from Corte Gafo.

GPS: 37.804136, -7.633481

Warning: this is a dangerous area on both sides of the river. For those who travel with children, all care is little, as there are no protection rails. The most spectacular view is that of the left bank, although, on the opposite side, the fall is best observed.

Pulo do Lobo (wolf leap) is the ex-libris of the Guadiana valley. The name will have to do with the distance between Guadiana riverbanks, that here allows the large terrestrial mammals to cross the river by a jump. In ancient times, this would be the only passage that allowed the contact between the populations of mammals of the two banks. In fact, here the river runs closer between the rocky walls of Corredoira.

Pulo do Lobo waterfall highlights the latest digging stage of the bed of the Guadiana river. The maximum digging took place about 20,000 years ago, related to the low sea level of the last glaciation. The incision of the river bed was done in a well preserved shelve or rocky terrace, corresponding to the bed of the ancient river. The waterfall also highlights the important control exerted by the hard quartzite in the evolution, upstream, of this erosion process. Besides the scientific value of the geolocation, are added also recognized aesthetic and cultural values.

Around it, the Mediterranean shrubs fill the air with colours and smells and we can see birds nesting on boulders, such as the Eurasian Crag-Martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris), on their acrobatic flights searching for insects, the Rock Bunting (Emberiza cia) and the Blue Rock-thrush (Monticola solitarius), perched on the rocks, admire the flight of a Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) or even the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). As for the Eurasian Eagle-owl (Bubo bubo), the largest nocturnal bird of prey in the world, it waits for the night in a cavity of the rock of the valley of the Guadiana.

So, what you are thus able to see here is much more than the river dizzying passage between rocky banks and its spectacular drop of almost 14 m on the serene “Pego do Sável”, is also the clear and rare vision of distinct geological epochs, corresponding to the formation of the two riverbeds: the old one, a wide platform carved in stone by the old Guadiana river; and dug inside it is the new bed, here forming an extensive rectilinear corridor, about 12 km long, suggestively called "Corredoira” (corridor).