📍 Landmark📸 Tourist Attraction

Itaipu Dam

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

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Overview

Hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. It lies in southern Brazil, where winters are genuinely cold and summers are the high season.

Why visit: Christ the Redeemer, Niemeyer's curves in Brasília and the Amazon's opera house — landmarks that carry the country's self-image.

Things to do

›Buy timed tickets online — the queues at the famous ones are long
›Go early or at sunset for the light and thinner crowds
›Check the forecast; the hilltop views vanish in cloud
›Take only what you need and keep your phone away on the walk there

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Travel Information

Best time

April – October, outside the summer rains

Weather

Subtropical with four real seasons, reversed from the northern hemisphere: hot summers of 25–35°C from December to March, and genuinely cold winters from June to August that bring frost inland and occasional snow on the highlands.

Entry fee

Ticketed (~₹1,200 – 3,000); many free

Hours

Typically 8 AM – 7 PM

Est. budget

₹1,500 – ₹4,000

Duration

2 – 3 hours

Nearby attractions

Within

14.7 km

📍 City

4.5

Foz do Iguaçu

Paraná

Municipality of Paraná state, Brazil. It lies in southern Brazil, where winters are genuinely cold and summers are the high season.

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