The Iguassu Falls Area Guru

Photos: Welcome to President Franco sign on the limit with Ciudad del Este; the barge on the Iguazu River A barge connecting what to what? Well, Puerto Iguazú, the gateway to tthe Iguassu Falls, headquarters of the Iguazú National Park and the owner of the Puerto Iguazu international Airport or IGR, in international airline ticketing language, is pretty well known. Puerto or Port Iguazu sits lazily on the left bank of the Iguassu River, right on the place where the Iguazu binational river (people down here like this binational thing as Itaipu Binational etc)ends its earthly course and from here on will travel as part of the Paraná River. Across from Puerto Iguazu is Foz do Iguaçu where I sit writing this. Across the Paraná is Paraguay - and don't think about Ciudad del Este - Ciudad del Este is way upstream from the Rivers Convergence Point. The city we are talking Presidente Franco for short. The whole name is Ciudad Presidente Dr. Manuel Franco. The barge I am talking about is th...

This spot is as far from the Malvinas or Falkland Islands as can be. It is the Three-Border-Mark at Puerto Iguazú in Northeastern Argentina. An organization of Argentine Malvinas War Veterans built this monument on the banks overlooking the Paraná River - straight ahead - to pay homage to those who died in the Falklands-Malvinas War. The land across the riover is Brazil. The roof you can see is on the Brazilian side across the Iguazú River and it is called the Espaço das Americas (Espacio de las Americas - Spanish) or Space for the Americas - a place created by former Paraná State Governor and former mayor of Curitiba, Jaime Lerner. The land to the left is Paraguay.