Argentina / Brazil Waterfall UNESCO World Heritage

Devil's Throat

On the Iguazu River.

When to go

Lucas Gentili · CC BY-SA 3.0

In numbers.

1,826m³/s

Average flow

estimate

252m

Elevation

Part of the Iguazu falls

Devil's Throat is a waterfall on the Iguazu River, in Argentina. It lies within Iguaçu National Park. It is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Getting there.

Puerto Iguazúnearest town · 18 km in a straight line
Parking 380 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
Cataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at IGR airport (Puerto Iguazu)Discover Cars · Affiliate link

Plan your visit

Stay, explore and get there

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Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

The Río Iguazú through the falls

The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.

The valley below the falls

Around the falls the river drops 61 m in 3.4 km. Here the river runs about 27 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

27viewpointsMirante Foz do Iguaçu, Torre Tanque, Mirador Salto Eva and 24 more
—waymarked walking routes
3car parks
—swimming spots
5picnic sites
11toilets
9information boards and visitor centres
1bus stops within 1 km
18other named waterfalls within 4 kmSalto Mbiguá, Salto Mitre, Saltos Tres Mosqueteros and 15 more
—caves
1campsitesCamping El Ñandú
2hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmGran Meliá Iguazú, Belmond Hotel das Cataratas
7restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

Puerto Iguazú18 km in a straight line
Foz do Iguaçu22 km in a straight line
Presidente Franco23 km in a straight line

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Iguazu Décembre 2007 - Panorama 5 — Martin St-Amant ( S23678 ) · CC BY 3.0

A Incrível Garganta do Diabo. Também poderia ser chamada de a Garganta de Deus! (7289976668) — Marinelson Almeida - Traveling through Brazil from Niteroi, Brasil · CC BY 2.0

A Incrível Garganta do Diabo. Também poderia ser chamada de a Garganta de Deus! (7289990202) — Marinelson Almeida - Traveling through Brazil from Niteroi, Brasil · CC BY 2.0

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Devil's Throat

Argentina

—Height
1,826 m³/sAverage flow
—Best months

Iguaçu Falls

Argentina

82 mHeight
1,756 m³/sAverage flow
May–Jun, Nov–DecBest months

See the guide

Saltos del Monday

Paraguay

40 mHeight
164 m³/sAverage flow
May–Jun, Nov–DecBest months

See the guide

Moconá Waterfalls

Argentina

—Height
2,235 m³/sAverage flow
Jun, Oct–DecBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q11699394) · CC0
River flow and catchment	HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.