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San Martin Island and Jumps

In the Island San Martín, located in the heart of the park, it is in the heat of contact with the exuberante selvática vegetation overwhelmed with arborescentes ferns, palms, orquídeas, claveles of the air and pink wood, this last one considered National Monument. From it is managed there to obtain a spectacular Vista of the jump San Martín and the Window, a considerable located stony conformation as opposed to the jumps.

The National Park Iguazú, created in 1934 by Law 12,103, has around 67,620 hectares that were declared Natural Patrimony of the Humanity in 1984 due to their scenic beauties and to the great biological diversity of the subtropical forest.

This located natural sanctuary in end NE of the Argentine Republic, to benign rains and temperatures (15º C of average in winter and 30º C of average in summer) conforms a loaded humidity atmosphere, almost without wind due to the leafy vegetal cupola.

The Iguazú river has a total route of 1320 km until its opening in Parana, 23 km after the cataracts.
Framed by low coasts it has in most of his route a wide variable that goes from the 500 to the 1,000 meters. Within the National Park, one is high and mighty to about 1,500 meters and it twists towards the south, soon to retake towards the north, forming an ample one Or, that contains in its opening, the steep unevenness in the land that gives rise to the cataracts: imposing waterfalls.

In their great curve, a proliferation of stumbling blocks, small barren islands and extended islands fragment the river in numerous arms. When arriving at the precipice, each one of them gives rise to a jump, whose set constitutes the great fan that is the Cataracts of the Iguazú.


This spectacle of the nature, considered like one of the wonders of the world, was originated about 200 thousand years ago in the site that today we know like "Landmark of the Three Borders", where come together the Iguazú river and Parana.

A geologic fault produced in the channel the Parana river caused that the mouth of the Iguazú river was turned a steep cascade of 80 meters of height.

From that point, where the Cataracts were originated, to where nowadays is the Throat of the Devil exist 23 kilometers of distance, due to the slow backward movement erosive, but continuous in the position of the Cataracts.

This great original cascade, has become two great winding arcs of 2700 meters of extension. Being the most imposing jump of the set, the Throat of the Devil, 80 meters of height.