Part of the Argentina Travel Guide
← Back to ArgentinaIguazú Falls sits on the border between Argentina and Brazil, and it is larger than photographs manage to convey. Hundreds of individual falls stretch across nearly three kilometers of jungle, culminating at the Devil's Throat, where the water drops into a canyon loud enough to feel.
The two sides are not interchangeable. Argentina holds roughly 80 percent of the falls and puts you inside them, with a network of walkways along the upper and lower circuits and a train out to the Devil's Throat, which needs a full day or more. Brazil offers the panorama, the view of the whole system at once, and takes half a day.
Seeing both is the right call, and the border crossing between them is straightforward. We did the Argentine side across two days and Brazil in a morning.
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