Skip to content
Mixroutes
Foz do Iguaçu
Municipality in Sul, Brazil

Foz do Iguaçu

Foz do Iguaçu, colloquially referred to as Foz, is the Brazilian city on the border of Iguaçu Falls.

Plan a trip to Foz do Iguaçu→From Curitiba

Foz in Portuguese means the mouth or end of a river and Iguaçu in Guarani or Tupi comes from the words y, meaning "river", and guasu, meaning "big".

Get in

Getting to Foz do Iguaçu

  1. 01
    Iguazu Falls Cataratas International Airport
  2. 02
    International Bus Station
  3. 03
    Trans Muleke

    Foz do Iguaçu, Rua Assis 124, +55 999993461.

  4. 04
    MD Tour

    Carlos Gomes 564, +55 4535223186, +55 45999644579.

Do

Things to do

Salto do Macuco (Tinamou Drop) (Macuco Safári) (Inside Iguaçu Park). 9AM-5PM. On this tour, the visitor takes trails in an open, electric vehicle, accompanied by trilingual guides over 3 km of jungle. The vehicle stops at the beginning of a 600-m trail that leads to the Salto do Macuco – with its crystal clear waters that fall from a height of 20 m over rocks, forming a tiny lake.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Star Restaurante

    R.

  2. 02
    Restaurante Brasileirinho

    R.

  3. 03
    Restaurante Corinthiano

    R.

  4. 04
    Restaurante Treviso

    R.

  5. 05
    Panela De Barro

    R.

How locals move

Getting around Foz do Iguaçu the local way

  • Get aroundYou can cross the international borders to Paraguay and Argentina by public bus, taxi, car, tour car, moto-taxi, or foot.

From Wikivoyage: Foz do Iguaçu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Horacio Cambeiro (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.