Guaíra Falls

The Sete Quedas Waterfalls ( Spanish Saltos del Guairá ) were located near the cities Guaíra on the Brazilian and Salto del Guairá on the Paraguayan side of the Río Paraná. The falls were flooded during the 1982 damming of the Paraná for the hydroelectric power station Itaipu.

Prior to the flooding of the reservoir, the distributed into seven groups cases a total height of 114 m with a height of 40 m of the largest individual case and an average water flow of 13,000 m³ / s ( maximum of 50,000 m³ / s) had

Evidence

- 24.073056 - 54.283611Koordinaten: 24 ° 4 ' 23 " S, 54 ° 17' 1 " W

  • Waterfall in South America
  • Waterfall in Brazil
  • Former watercourses
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