Iguazu Falls is located on the river of the same name, on the border of Brazil and Argentina. The name "Iguazu" means "big water". Iguazu is often called one of the seven wonders of the world, its width is more than 2500 meters. The height of the stages varies according to different sources from 70 - 80 meters. Waterfall is the most powerful and wide in the world.

Iguazu Falls - a system consisting of nearly 300 of stepped cascades, each of which reaches a height of about 85 meters. One of them is the border between Argentina and Brazil.

Local residents have their own legend about the origin of the waterfall. According to legend, a beautiful Aboriginal Knipe ran off with another man, when the god of her tribe decided to marry her. In anger, God divided the river, waterfalls and get that fugitive doomed to eternal fall.

The first European saw a waterfall, become the conquistador Don Alvaro Nunez de Baca Kasese. His name is immortalized on a plate nearby the cascade Arayagaray. Conquistador was religious and a waterfall called Salto de Santa Maria ("Leap of St. Mary"). But the name did not stick. About the waterfall forgotten, and the first map of the area it was drawn only in the late nineteenth century.

Currently Falls - one of the most famous tourist destinations in Argentina. Most of the stages are in the territory of that country. For tourists here were built special bridges length of 2 km. These bridges are interconnected protruding from boiling water, small islands.

All waterfalls received a very sounding names. On the territory of Argentina - stages two sisters, Ramirez, Mitre, Adam and Eve, Two and Three Musketeers and others. In Brazil - Unión, Salto - Florian, Benjamin - Constant and many others.

The Government of Argentina issued a decree on the establishment of Iguazu National Park to protect and preserve the waterfall in the future. Near the village is located Iguacu, hotel complexes, including restaurants, hotels, the airport, souvenir shops.