Brazil-Argentina: Popular Devil’s Throat footbridge closed due to extraordinary rise of Iguazu River

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Devil’s Throat tourist circuit on the Argentinian side of the Iguazu falls was closed due to the extraordinary rise of the Iguazu River on Saturday, June 4.

A day earlier, on Friday, the Iguazu Falls, located in Misiones province, reportedly, broke a historical record by registering the largest volume of water in the last five years.

According to the Director of the Iguazu National Park, the tourist activities had been suspended due to the rise of the Iguazu River.

“We started to have a water regime that normally goes between 1,300 and 1,700 cubic meters per second, that is the normal flow of the Iguazu River.

On Friday, it presented a flow of 4,000 – 4,500 cubic meters, and there, almost at the end of the day, the alarms went on because a growing of the river exceeding 8,000 cubic meters,” Gaston Gobetto, Iguazu National Park Guide, said.

Devil’s Throat footbridge is a 1 km-long walkway across the river that leads you to the top of the largest section of the falls. “If feeling like so much force, feeling like the waterfalls four times more, you feel, let’s say, fear, more fear than normal.”

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