Another amazing wonder of the world is the Iguazu water falls situated between the borders of Argentina and Brazil. It is situated on the Iguazu river and it divided the Iguazu river into upper and lower Iguazu.The name originated from Guarani and Tupi words and its is believed that the God planned to marry beautiful aborigine Naipi who fled with her mortal lover Taroba in a small boat and in that anger God sliced the river into two halves thus forming the eternal waterfalls of lovers.The first European to find the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls in the Argentine side is named. The falls were rediscovered by Boselli at the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the Argentine falls is named after him.Iguazu Falls was short-listed as a candidate to be one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As of February 2009 it was ranking fifth in Group F, the category for lake, rivers, and waterfalls.
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