Iguassú

or I·gua·çu

[ ee-gwah-soo ]

noun

1. a river in S Brazil, flowing W to the Paraná River. 380 miles (610 km) long.

Example Sentences

At last they got them ready, and, slipping past the Spanish settlements in the night, they finally reached some small Jesuit missions near the mouth of the Iguassú, five hundred miles from their starting-point.

From Project Gutenberg

This is certainly an exaggeration, but we know that all the Jesuit villages were wiped out as far south as the Iguassu, and that north of that tributary the Spanish line was pushed back to the Paraná.

From Project Gutenberg

Behind them plays footage of the Iguassu falls, whose monumental force helps amplify the dancers' ecstasy.

From The Guardian

Near the place where the Iguassu river empties into the Parana are the famous Iguassu Falls which are twice as wide and fifty feet higher than Niagara Falls.

From Project Gutenberg