
{"id":2375,"date":"2011-10-28T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2022-02-10T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T13:04:57","slug":"cataratas-del-iguazu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/the-iguazu-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iguaz\u00fa Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2><em>The Iguaz\u00fa Falls, along with the Perito Moreno Glacier, are the greatest tourist icons in Argentina.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"San Mart\u00edn Fall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/igr_salto_san_martin1.jpg\" alt=\"San Mart\u00edn Fall\" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Iguaz\u00fa&#8230; &#8220;big waters&#8221;. <\/strong><strong>Waterfalls&#8230; a roar that breaks the air from miles away. <\/strong><strong>Jungle&#8230; the sounds of wild animals and the backdrop of verdant leaves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Extremely beautiful, literally an earthquake for the senses, the <strong>Iguaz\u00fa Falls are located<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>in the northeast of Argentina<\/strong>, where a\u00a0<strong>triple frontier<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>shared with Brazil and Paraguay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6519\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/iguazu-pano-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Cataratas de Iguazu\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/iguazu-pano-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/iguazu-pano-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/iguazu-pano.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iguazu WaterFalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The waterfalls assault the visitor with their torrents, so grand and loud that we, mere mortals, are confronted with the smallness and brevity of our lives. Lush green,\u00a0<strong>gigantic leaves and flowers<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>red earth<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>eyes of animals watching us<\/strong>, a heat that pierces the body.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/igr_Tour-Iguazu-010.jpg\" alt=\"The Iguaz\u00fa Falls\" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>In a guidebook an expert guide from Iguaz\u00fa asked himself why the waterfalls are not as appreciated in Argentina as Patagonia and why the snow and ice is considered to be more \u201celegant\u201d than the tropical heat of the jungle. We can\u2019t say if this is true, but we can assure visitors to our country that this prejudice is unfounded.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iguaz\u00fa Falls, along with the Perito Moreno Glacier, are the greatest tourist icons in Argentina. Iguaz\u00fa&#8230; &#8220;big waters&#8221;. Waterfalls&#8230; a roar that breaks the air from miles away. Jungle&#8230; the sounds of wild animals and the backdrop of verdant leaves. Extremely beautiful, literally an earthquake for the senses, the Iguaz\u00fa Falls are located\u00a0in the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/the-iguazu-falls\/\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[50],"class_list":{"0":"post-2375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iguazu","8":"tag-enhomecat"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}