Iguassu Falls

Created by the federal decree. 1035 of 10 January 1939, its total area covers an area of ​​the Brazilian side of 185,262.5 hectares with a perimeter of about 420km, 300km of which are natural borders of streams, and Brazilian and Argentine sides together comprise approximately 225 hectares.


On November 17, 1986, during the general conference of UNESCO held in Paris, the Iguassu National Park was listed as World Natural Heritage of Humanity, becoming one of the largest forest reserves in South America

The Iguaçu National Park is named in your area to include important part of the Iguazu River, about 50km from the river's course, and the world famous Iguazu Falls.

It is the largest and most important park in the River Plate Basin and was the first park in Brazil to receive a Management Plan, which hosts an important gene pool of animal and plant species, some endangered.

The Iguaçu National Park is spectacular as well as pioneering. The first proposal for a Brazilian National Park wanted to donate to "future generations," preserved "as is God created," a natural setting that brings together "all the possible gradations of the beautiful to the sublime, the picturesque to the awesome" and "not a flora are unsurpassed in the world "in the" magnificent leap from Delhi. " With these words, in his book "Province of Parana, Railways to Mato Grosso and Bolivia," the engineer André Rebouças, began the campaign in Brazil for the preservation of the Iguazu Falls. They date back to 1876. Yellowstone, the first national park in the world, was four years old.

In Brazil, it is bordered by the cities of Foz do Iguaçu, Mediatrix, Matelândia, Sky Blue, São Miguel do Iguaçu, Santa Terezinha de Itaipu, Santa Tereza do Oeste, Captain Mark Leonidas, and Capanema Serranópolis.

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As predicted Rebouças, it has the basic objective of the preservation of natural ecosystems of great ecological significance and scenic beauty, making it possible to carry out scientific research and development activities of environmental education and interpretation, recreation in touch with nature and ecological tourism.

The park is located in the extreme west of Paraná state, in the Iguaçu River basin, 17 km from downtown Foz do Iguaçu. It shares borders with Argentina, where it is deployed Iguazu National Park, created in 1934. The boundary between the two countries and their national parks is formed by the Iguaçu River, which rises near the Serra do Mar, in Curitiba, and travels throughout the state of Paraná, a distance of about 1,300 km. The mouth of the river is 18 km after the Falls, where it empties into the Parana River. This meeting of rivers forms a triple border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
His party released for visitation, where the company's concession areas Iguazu Falls S / A and the Falls, is approximately 0.3% of the total area of ​​the park.

In it, the greatest show are the Iguazú Falls. Forming a semicircle at 2700 meters wide, the falls fill the eyes of visitors, the foam of water that falls from a height of 72 meters on the heels between Brazil and Argentina.


The number of hops between 150 and 300, depending on the flow of the Iguazu River. In addition to lush waterfalls, there are other attractions inside, as the fauna is very rich, the Black Well, the Macuco Falls, the Visitor Center, the Statue of Santos Dumont, VASP tribute to the "Father of Aviation", which committed all his prestige in the transformation of the area of ​​the falls National Park.

Iguassu Falls