MEXICO

MEXICO / MÉXICO.

Tourism.
Basaseachic Falls.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 29.05.1982.
Face value: 0.80 Mexican peso.
Design: Ramón Alcántara Rodríguez (from watercolor and pen).
Printed by T.I.E.F. (Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores), Ciudad de México.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 24 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1821.
- Scott No. 1274.
- StampWorld No. 1852.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1631.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 971.

Basaseachic Falls (Spanish: Cascada de Basaseachic) is located at the top of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the municipality of Ocampo (Chihuahua state), in the Basaseachic Falls National Park (Parque Nacional Cascada de Basaseachic). With a height of 246 m (807 ft) of free fall (the height indicated in the stamp is incorrect), it is the highest permanent waterfall in Mexico. It is formed by the Durazno and the Basaseachi streams, which come together at the top of the mountain and then rush down the ravine; from the waterfall the stream is called the Candameña River.