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About 100 fish species are native to the Iguazu River, and several undescribed species are known. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Most fish species in the river are catfish , characiforms and cichlids . [ 11 ] [ 12 ] About 70% are endemic , which to a large extent is linked to the falls, serving both as a home for rheophilic species and isolating species above ...
The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River rises near the heart of the city of Curitiba. For most of its course, the river flows through Brazil; however, most of the falls are on the Argentine side. Below its confluence with the San Antonio River, the Iguazu River forms the border between Argentina and Brazil.
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 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.
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 area of the park was inhabited 10,000 years ago by the hunter-gatherers of the Eldoradense culture. They were displaced around 1,000 CE by the Guaraní, who brought new agricultural technologies, and were displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores in the 16th century, though their legacy is still alive in this area (the name of the park and the river is Guaraní y guasu ...
Iguazu Falls are spectacular waterfalls on the Iguazú River in the northwest corner of the province, near the city of Puerto Iguazú. Misiones shares the falls with the Brazilian state of Paraná (in that nation's Southern Region). Meanwhile, the international border with Paraguay is close by.
Mojotoro River (Lavayén River) Pescado River. Iruya River; Río Grande de Tarija. Itaú River; Lipeo River; Pilcomayo River. Pilaya River (Bolivia) San Juan del Oro River (Bolivia) Río Grande de San Juan; Urugua-í River; Iguazu River. San Antonio River; Luján River. Reconquista River; Matanza River (Riachuelo) Samborombón Bay. Samborombón ...