ARGENTINA.
Year of Tourism in the Americas.
Iguazu Falls.
Stamp issued on 16.12.1972.
Face value: 45 Argentine centavos.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 66 x 30 mm.
Catalogs
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Cefiloza No. 1132.
- Götig & Jalil No. 1602.
- Michel No. 1135.
- Scott No. 985.
- StampWorld No. 1159.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1410.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 935.
Iguazu
Falls (in Spanish, Cataratas del Iguazú; in Guarani, Chororõ Yguasu;
in Portuguese, Cataratas do Iguaçu), formed by the Iguazu River on the
border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the
Brazilian state of Paraná,
are the largest in the world. Most of the falls (80%) are on the Argentine
side, and at its confluence with the San
Antonio River, the Iguazu River serves as the border between Argentina and
Brazil. The falls have different heights; the largest is 82 m (269 ft). Its
average flow is 1,756 m3 per second (62,010 ft3/s). The
first European to register the existence of the falls was the Spanish Álvar
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1542, who called them “Saltos de Santa María”;
However, the first to spot them had been Aleixo García, a
castaway from the expedition of Juan Díaz de
Solís, in 1524, when he crossed that region in search of the Sierra de la
Plata. In 1934 the Argentine government established the Iguazú National Park, which was
declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1984.
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