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Iguazú

American  
[ee-gwuh-zoo] / ˌi gwəˈzu /
Also Iguaçú

noun

  1. a river in S Brazil, flowing W to the Paraná River on the Argentina-Paraguay-Brazil border: noted for its falls. 745 miles (1,199 km) long.


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Lizeth’s excursion to Iguazú Falls came 10 years ago, while she was a student at Grinnell College in Iowa.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2021

Nothing has quite filled the senses of 31-year-old Lizeth Gutierrez as being drenched by legendary Iguazú Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2021

His Nairobi show included a two-metre-high print of a photo he took in South America of Iguazú Falls, in 2010.

From The New Yorker Sep. 3, 2018

Eventually they found a temporary refuge in the Reduction of the Nativity upon the Acaray, and at Santa Maria la Mayor upon the Iguazú.

From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

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