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The Iguazu River (Brazilian Portuguese: Rio Iguaçu [4] [ˈʁi.u iɡwaˈsu], Spanish: Río Iguazú [ˈri.o iɣwaˈsu]), [5] also called Rio Iguassu, [6] (from the Guaraní í Guazú, literally "Big Water") [7] is a river in Brazil and Argentina. It is an important tributary of the Paraná River.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Devil's Throat (Spanish: Garganta del Diablo, Portuguese: Garganta do Diabo) is a cataract on the Iguazu River at the border of Brazil and Argentina. [1] The place is at the border of Argentine Iguazú National Park and Brazilian Iguaçu National Park. Not far from the viewing platforms is the "Garganta" station of the Rainforest Ecological ...
A bridge on the Iguaçu River, between Puerto Iguazú, Argentina and Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. The Argentina–Brazil border is the line that limits the territories of the Argentine Republic and the Federative Republic of Brazil. It is approximately 1,224 km (761 mi) long. [1]