The Iguaçu National Park, Brazil is one of the most visited sites of the country. The park shares the one of the world's largest and most impressive waterfalls with Iguazu National Park in Argentina. This is the prime attraction of the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, which is over 2,700 meters wide. There is a wide variety of wildlife that could be sighted in the park along the wide Paraná River valley. It shelters rare and rare species of flora and fauna, such as the giant otter and giant ant-eater. Clouds of squirt round the waterfall produce lush vegetation.
The Iguaçu National Park, Brazil was listed as World Heritage site in Danger in 1999-2001 due to the construction of a discontinued road splitting the Park. Iguaçu National Park is located in the far southwest of Paraná State. Towards the south of the park is the Argentinean border with Iguazu National Park across Rio Iguaçu; to the west, the nearby Paraguayan border. Three towns lie close together west of the park on the tri-state border: in Brazil, the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in Paraguay, Ciudad del Este across the Paraná River and in Argentina, Puerto Iguazu a few kilometers south. The Itaipu hydroelectric dam is twenty kilometers upstream of Foz do Iguaçu on the Paraná River.
Brief history
1916: The first measures taken to protect Iguaçu Falls;
1939: The National Park established by Federal Decree No.1035 amended and extended by Decrees Nos.