The Iguazu falls on the same river, 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 reaches more than 2500 meters. The height of the cascades varies according to different sources from 70 to 80 meters. The waterfall is the most powerful and wide on the planet.

Iguazu is 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.

Locals have a legend about the origin of the waterfall. According to the legend, a beautiful aboriginal to Naipu ran away with another man, when God her tribe decided to marry her. In anger, God divided the river, and turned the waterfalls, which condemned the fugitive to an eternal fall.

The first European to discover the falls was the Conquistador don Alvaro núñez Cases de Tank. His name immortalized on the stove near the cascade Rayahari. Conquistador was religious and was named the waterfall Salto de Santa Maria ("Jump St. Mary"). But the name caught on. About waterfall forgot, and the first map of this area was drawn only in the late nineteenth century.

Currently Iguazu is one of the most famous tourist destinations of Argentina. The majority of cascades is located on the territory of this country. For tourists there were built special bridges with a length of 2 km. These bridges connect the speakers of the swirling waters of a small island.

All of the cascades of the waterfall got a very sonorous names. In Argentina – cascades of Two Sisters, Ramirez, Mitra, Adam and eve, Two and Three Musketeers, and others. In Brazil unión, Salto Floriano, Benjamin – constant and many others.

The Argentine government issued a decree on the establishment of iguaçu national Park for the protection and preservation of the falls in the future. Near Iguazu is the village, hotel complexes, including restaurants, hotels, airport, souvenir shops.