The name “Manqui Malal” comes from the Mapuche words “manqui” (condor) and “malal” (stone wall). These waterfalls offer an impressive natural spectacle, with a waterfall of approximately 30 meters high.

It is an area that stands out for the important exposure of rock outcrops of marine origin where fossil remains from the Jurassic and Cretaceous are found, deposited thanks to the ingress of the Pacific Ocean on the continent and exposed by tectonic processes associated with the Andean orogeny, meaning that these formations are exposed by the action of deep faults that lift and expose them. These deposits are, in turn, affected by intrusive igneous rocks such as dikes and sills of Tertiary age.