Mordor (Inferior)
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| | Raps:max ↨328ft
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| Condition Reports: | 27 Jan 2026
"Excellent waterpark-style canyon with a big drop, some smaller raps, and some slides and jumps. We combined it with Middle Mordor, and it was still a |
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| Best season: | Jan-Apr
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10.2100, -84.2760
10.2196, -84.2897
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Introduction
Placeholder for Mordor Bajo.
Approach
This is the same drainage as Mordor. It is considered the lower section of the creek. You enter just downstream of the exit for Mordor Medio, near the footbridge.
There is a large parking area for many tourists indicated on the map, which is the usual place to park. In 2021, we were allowed by the person living at the gate to the private road, to open the gate and drive up the road a short ways, parking in front of the pink house. This saved about 0.25mi of walking each way.
Descent
Mordor Bajo contains one of the biggest drops in the Mordor drainage: an 80 m rappel.
R1: ~15 m
R2: 25 m if from the farthest back hangar and link, LDC. There are a series of intermediate points to a further anchor, but this may be less needed in lower flow (like we experienced. Alternatively, there is a dry line RDC.
R3: 30 m rebelay to 50 m rappel LDC side of the main falls.
There are several jumps and slides in canyon. One jump between R2 and R3 had a slippery downclimb to a boulder. We made a reasonable rock chock anchor to protect this downclimb.
Exit
Red tape
You must pay the local owner, named Omar, to hike up their land to access this canyon. The fee was 5,000 colones per person in 2021.
Update: In March 2026, we needed to pay Dinoland 6000 colones/person, instead of Omar.