This spectacle of nature is considered a wonder of the world. These falls originated 200 thousands years ago in the place that today is known as “the 3 frontiers” marked with stone pillars, where the Iguazú river and the Paraná river meet.
The mouth of the Iguazú river is in the Sea Mountain range, only from a few kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean and at a height of approximately 900 meters from sea level. Its firsts tributaries begin near the city of Curitiba, capital of the Paraná State, from where it received the name Big River of Curitiba that it has in Brazil.
The Iguazú river has an approximate length of 1.300 kilometres, with 1.205km exclusively in Brazil and 115km used as a frontier between Argentina and Brazi,. starting with when the Iguazú River receives the San Antonio river as a tributary and finishing when it flows into the Paraná river. On its way through the Brazilian landscape it forms numerous Falls, very picturesque but with less importance than the Iguazú Falls. Some of these are, the Cayacanga, a fall with a height of 10 meters, the Do Funil fall with 12 meters, the Passo fall; the Santiago, of great height and beauty, Osorio fall, Caxías and the Faraday falls
The Iguazú river flows into the Paraná river with a length that varies between 250 and 400 meters depending on the river level. The waters of both are not mixed immediately and for a long time you can watch the water from the Iguazú, clear and greenish, making whirlpools between the water from the Paraná, dark and reddish, finally absorbing the first. Where the rivers converge, you can see the 3 frontiers Argentina, Brazilian and Paraguayan |
