2) Iguazu Falls, bordering Brazil and Argentina
Legend has it that when she first laid eyes on Iguazu Falls, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt exclaimed, âpoor Niagara!â The Iguazu Falls, situated on the border between Brazil and Argentina, is not one waterfall, not three waterfalls (like Niagara), but 257 waterfalls in one. Most of the individual cascading streams are around 210 foot high. The most impressive of all the falls is said to be the unusually-shaped Devilâs Throat which falls in the shape of a U and is 2300 foot long. The name âIguazuâ in the native Guarani or Tupi language simply means âbig waterâ and the first record of the fallâs existence was made in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca.