Iguazu Falls are
waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian State of
Paraná and the Argentine Province of Misiones. The falls divide the river into
the upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River starts at the city of Curitiba and
runs for the most part of the course in Brazil and at the end at the border of
Brazil and Argentina. More images after the break...
Their name comes from the Guarani or Tupi words
y (water) and ûasú [waˈsu] (big). Legend has it that a god planned to marry a
beautiful aborigine named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a
canoe. In rage, the god sliced the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the
lovers to an eternal fall. The first European to find the falls was the Spanish
Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls in
the Argentine side is named. The falls were rediscovered by Bosellz at the end
of the nineteenth century, and one of the Argentine falls is named after him.
Iguazu Falls was short-listed as a candidate to be one of the New7Wonders of
Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As of February 2009 it
was ranking fifth in Group F, the category for lake, rivers, and waterfalls. Via
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