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The park was created in 1934 to protect one of the greatest natural beauties of Argentina, the Iguazu Falls, surrounded by the subtropical jungle. The Iguazú National Reserve was defined by law 18.801 of 7 October 1970 as constituting the western part of the Iguazú National Park. [ 1 ]
Iguaçu National Park (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a national park in Paraná State, Brazil.It comprises a total area of 185,262.5 hectares (457,794 acres) and a length of about 420 kilometers (260 mi), 300 kilometers (190 mi) of which are natural borders by bodies of water and the Argentine and Brazilian sides together comprise around 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres). [1]
The only wider falls are extremely large rapid-like falls, such as the Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls). With the flooding of the Guaíra Falls in 1982, Iguazu currently has the sixth-greatest average annual flow of any waterfall in the world, following number five Niagara, with an average rate of 1,746 m 3 /s (61,660 cu ft/s).
Foz do Iguaçu (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfɔz du iɡwaˈsu]; "Iguazu River mouth"), colloquially referred to as Foz, is the Brazilian city on the border of Iguaçu Falls. Foz in Portuguese means the mouth or end of a river and Iguaçu in Guarani or Tupi comes from the words " y " [ɨ] , meaning "water" or "river", and " guasu ...
The Falls of Iguazú, on the border between Brazil and Argentina, registered a flow of 3.8 million gallons of water per second on Oct. 12, due to heavy rainfall in the area.
The falls are within national parks in both Brazil, Iguaçu National Park, and Argentina, Iguazú National Park. It empties into the Paraná River at the point where the borders of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay join, an area known as the Triple Frontier .
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Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Cataratas del Iguazú) (IATA: IGR, ICAO: SARI), also known as Mayor Carlos Eduardo Krause Airport, [1] [3] is an airport in Misiones Province, Argentina, serving the city of Puerto Iguazú and providing access to the nearby Iguazú Falls (Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú).