Otherworldly beauty in South America. The reason for them Iguazu Falls, a group of waterfalls created by the homonymous river. They are located on the border of the state of Paraná, which belongs to Brazil (20%), and the province of Misiones, which belongs to Argentina (80%). The falls divide the river of the same name into upper and lower Iguazu.

In the area they are gathered as a whole 275 waterfalls, the largest waterfall system in the world. About 13,000 cubic meters of water per second fall from the falls, that’s 5 Olympic sized swimming pools every second!

Their total length is 2.7 kilometers. Some of them reach a height of 82 meters, but the majority of them are about 64 meters high. The most impressive of them is called “Devil’s Neck” (Garganta del Diablo in Spanish or Garganta do Diabo in Portuguese). It is 82 meters high, 700 meters long and 150 meters thick. This particular waterfall is also the border of the two countries.

2/3 of the falls are on the Argentine side. The waters are led into a channel that later feeds the Parana River. The area covered by the waters of the falls during the period when the river floods is about 40 ha (Victoria Falls covers 55 ha), while the annual average flow is 6,500 m2/s. But in relation to the Victoria Falls, those of Iguazu offer a better view to the visitor, due to the morphology of the area.