The waterfall is located within the suco of Fatisi and the Laulara administrative post in the Aileu municipality, a short distance from Dili, the capital city.

[2][4] From the base of the waterfall, the stream flows initially in a southwesterly direction for a short distance.

[2][4] On 19 August 1975, during the East Timorese Civil War, a member of Unetim, the Fretilin youth wing, killed a man who was being detained by Fretilin at the detention centre in Unmenlau, in the then sub-district of Laulara.

The following day, 20 August 1975, a group of eight men, who were being detained by Fretilin in Fatisi on suspicion of being spies for the Timorese Democratic Union (Portuguese: União Democrática Timorense (UDT)), were taken outside.

[3] The waterfall is a habitat, and has been a site for observation and recording, of both rare and abundant species of dragonfly.