Puerto Iguazú
Puerto Iguazú is a tourist town in the northeast of Argentina at the Triborder with Paraguay and Brazil. It mainly serves the needs of the tourists visiting the Iguaçu Falls close-by.Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 42,800 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Eva Perón”, “Iguassu”, “Iguazú”, “Puerto Aguirre”, and “Puerto Iguazu”
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Triple Frontier.
Triple Frontier
Locality
Photo: Abuelodelanada, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Triple Frontier is a tri-border area along the junction of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, where the Iguazú and Paraná rivers converge. Near the confluence are the cities of Puerto Iguazú, Foz do Iguaçu and Ciudad del Este.
Puerto Iguazú
- Categories: city, municipality, border city, and locality
- Location: Departamento de Iguazú, Misiones, Mesopotamia, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-25.6108° or 25° 36′ 39″ southLongitude
-54.5764° or 54° 34′ 35″ westPopulation
42,800Elevation
177 metres (581 feet)IATA airport code
IGRUnited Nations Location Code
AR IGROpen location code
58679CQF+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 198413761OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3429777Wikidata ID
Q55378
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Veps—“Puerto Iguazú” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بويرتو جواسيو”
- Armenian: “Պուերտո Իգուասու”
- Asturian: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Basque: “Puerto Iguazu”
- Basque: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Belarusian: “Пуэрта-Ігуасу”
- Catalan: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Cebuano: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Central Kurdish: “پوێرتۆ ئیگواسوو”
- Chinese: “伊瓜蘇港”
- Czech: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Dutch: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Esperanto: “Puerto Iguazú”
- French: “Puerto Iguazú”
- German: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Greek: “Πουέρτο Ιγκουασού”
- Hebrew: “פוארטו איגואסו”
- Hungarian: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Ido: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Italian: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Japanese: “プエルト イグアス”
- Japanese: “プエルト・イグアス”
- Korean: “푸에르토이과수”
- Latin: “Portus Iguassuensis”
- Lithuanian: “Puerto Igvasu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Norwegian: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Puerto Iguazú”
- Persian: “پورتو یواسو”
- Polish: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Portuguese: “Porto Iguaçu”
- Portuguese: “Puerto Iguazu”
- Portuguese: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Romanian: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Russian: “Пуэрто-Игуасу”
- Slovak: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Slovenian: “Puerto Iguazú”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورتو یواسو”
- Spanish: “Puerto Iguazu”
- Spanish: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Swedish: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Turkish: “Puerto Iguazú”
- Ukrainian: “Пуерто-Ігуасу”
- Ukrainian: “Пуерто-Іґуасу”
- Veps: “Puerto Iguasu”
- “Puerto Iguazú”
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