{"id":2488,"date":"2011-10-28T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:17:47","slug":"parque-nacional-iguazu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/iguazu-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Iguaz\u00fa National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>\n<em>In order to preserve\u00a0the sub-tropical rain forest\u00a0that surrounds the waterfalls and the waterfalls themselves,\u00a0two national parks\u00a0were created:\u00a0Iguaz\u00fa National Park, in Argentina and Igua\u00e7u Nacional Park in Brazil.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"Iguaz\u00fa National Park\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/igr_paseo_inferior5.jpg\" alt=\"Iguaz\u00fa National Park\" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/i\/iguazu\/cataratas\/cataratasarg.php\">Argentine park<\/a><\/strong>, which is in the\u00a0<strong>north of Misiones Province<\/strong>, was created on the 9 th. of October in 1934 and counts<strong>67,000 hectares<\/strong>. In 1984 it was declared an\u00a0<strong>UNESCO World Heritage site<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>RECOMENDATIONS FOR VISITING IGUAZ\u00da NATIONAL PARK<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t enter with animals.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t touch or feed the wild animals.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t take soil, plants (or parts of them), animals (live or dead) or any element of the natural environment.<\/li>\n<li>Only throw garbage into the trash cans.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t break stalks or flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Use only marked paths.<\/li>\n<li>Respect that the paths are for one-way traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that a lot of animals, especially the cats, are nocturnal animals.<\/li>\n<li>And as always, enjoy the natural beauty leaving behind only footprints, so that the next visitor can enjoy the same experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h2>Igua\u00e7u National Park, in Brazil<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Waterfalls on the Brazilian Side \" src=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/foz_cataratas.jpg\" alt=\"Waterfalls on the Brazilian Side \" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Today, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/i\/iguazu\/cataratas\/cataratasbr.php\"><strong>Igua\u00e7u National Park<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in<strong>Brazil<\/strong>, after going through a process of reforms, has a\u00a0<strong>new system of paths<\/strong>\u00a0that give a\u00a0<strong>better view of the falls<\/strong>, and feature impressive\u00a0<strong>panoramic views<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Many say that you \u201clive\u201d the falls on the Argentinean side and \u201csee\u201d the falls from Brazil, so both visits are a must indeed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to preserve\u00a0the sub-tropical rain forest\u00a0that surrounds the waterfalls and the waterfalls themselves,\u00a0two national parks\u00a0were created:\u00a0Iguaz\u00fa National Park, in Argentina and Igua\u00e7u Nacional Park in Brazil. The\u00a0Argentine park, which is in the\u00a0north of Misiones Province, was created on the 9 th. of October in 1934 and counts67,000 hectares. In 1984 it was declared an\u00a0UNESCO&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/iguazu-national-park\/\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7330,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iguazu"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","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=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15902,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/15902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}