The Spaniard, arena his aboriginal hard-court clash in a year afterward a knee injury, won 4-6 6-3 6-4.
He adds Indian Wells to the clay-court titles he won in Brazil and Mexico aback his improvement in February.
It was accepted on Sunday that Nadal will not play in Miami next week, with European adobe next on his schedule.
He active aback to Europe accepting surpassed all expectations, catastrophe the aboriginal date of his improvement with achievement in one of the bigger hard-court tournaments in tennis, which featured all the world's arch players.
Nadal says his larboard knee has acceptable canicule and bad, and had played down his affairs on the added backbreaking harder courts, but it appears he is already aback to his best whatever the surface.
"It's apparently one of the a lot of affecting victories of my career," said Nadal.
"The abutment aback I came aback has been huge. It's an acclaimed anniversary for me and an acclaimed tournament."
Del Potro, 24, played his allotment in a amazing final and went abutting to afterward up wins over Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic by authoritative it a hat-trick with Nadal.
The Argentine came aback from 0-3, 15-40 to yield the aboriginal set and move a breach up in the additional with a run of nine amateur out of 11, and achievement was in afterimage at a set and 3-1 up.
Nadal was not done, however, and wrestled the drive aback as he began to win the action of two of the bigger forehands in the game.
The Spaniard, 25, won 5 amateur in assumption to force the decider and, afterwards missing a adventitious to breach at the alpha of the third, he did so with addition abandoned forehand champ in bold three.
There was one final, ablaze adornment from Del Potro as he rescued a atrocious bearings at 0-40 and three bout credibility down in bold nine, but it was alone a break of execution.
Nadal served his way to addition championship point and if he assuredly bankrupt it out, the 11-time Grand Slam best burst to the arena in scenes evocative of his above triumphs.
"I started the bout arena fantastic, again Del Potro started arena a little added aggressive," said Nadal, whose endure hard-court appellation came in 2010.
"In my opinion, I approved to change too aboriginal adjoin his forehand. I was arena abundant too advancing for my game.
"When I was able to calm myself, I began to play better. I started to play a little bit slower; my movement was unbelievable. Again I play a absurd match."
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