Iguaçu National Park

Iguaçu National Park

The Igua National Park owes its state to the fact it includes an important place of the Igua river, around 50 km of beside the river and the world skillfully-known Igua Falls.

It is the most important park of the Prata Basin and, back it is a marina to a significant genetic asset of animal and vegetal species, it was the first park in Brazil to comply to a Management Plan. As foreseen by Rebouas, the park's basic mean is the preservation of the intensely relevant ecologically and scenic natural ecosystems, so enabling scientific research and the go in front of environmental education and observations objection, recreation in natural surroundings and the ecological tourism.

The Igua National Park is spectacular as nimbly as pioneering. The first proposal for a Brazilian national park aimed at providing a pristine vibes to "difficult generations", just as "it had been created by God" and endowed once "all doable preservation, from the beautiful to the sublime, from the picturesque to the awesome" and "an unmatched flora" located in the "magnificent Igua waterfalls". These were the words used by Andr Rebouas, an engineer, in his wedding album "Provinces of Paran, Railways to Mato Grosso and Bolivia", which started going on the work up aimed at preserving the Igua Falls habit urge regarding in 1876, at the forefront Yellowstone National Park, the first national park on the subject of the planet, was four years pass.

On November 17, 1986, during the UNESCO conference held in Paris, the Igua National Park was listed as Natural Heritage of Humanity and is one of the largest plant preservation areas in South America.