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Foz do Iguaçu/Cataratas International Airport (IATA: IGU, ICAO: SBFI), is the airport serving Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. It is named after the Iguazu Falls ( Portuguese : Cataratas do Iguaçu ) and provides air-connections to the falls located at Iguaçu National Park , and to Itaipu Dam .
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 ...
Ticket office – Iguaçu National Park, Brazil. The falls may be reached from two main towns, with one on either side of the falls: Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil and Puerto Iguazú in Argentina, as well as from Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, on the other side of the Paraná River from Foz do Iguaçu, each of those three cities having commercial airports.
Belmond Hotel das Cataratas, with Iguassu Falls directly behind it. The two-story Portuguese colonial style hotel opened in 1958. [2] Two further wings were added in 1971 and 1982. The main building houses the reception area, a bar and restaurant with terrace and an outdoor pool area with a casual restaurant.
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).
The Tancredo Neves International Bridge links Puerto Iguazú with the Brazilian border town of Foz do Iguaçu, where the Argentine National Route 12 becomes the Brazilian BR-469. From the main bus station one can take taxis, or the municipal bus, one of whose routes run from the Three Frontiers to Iguazú National Park ( Parque Nacional de las ...
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]
Guaíra Falls – Portuguese: Salto das Sete Quedas do Guaíra; Sete Quedas, on the Brazil–Paraguay border; Iguazu Falls – Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu; Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná; highest flow rate in South America; Smoke Falls – 340 m (1,120 ft) high; Portuguese: Cachoeira da Fumaça; Chapada Diamantina National Park, Bahia