Yucumã Falls
A linear waterfall.
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Turvo State Park lies in north-west Rio Grande do Sul, in the municipality of Derrubadas on the Uruguay River, facing Santa Catarina state and Argentina's Misiones province across the water. It was the first park created in the state, in 1947, and its 17,491 hectares protect the last large, well-preserved stretch of Upper Uruguay forest in the state, home to rare and endangered species. Its best-known sight is the Yucumã Falls, called Moconá in Argentina: an unusual linear waterfall that runs about 1,800 metres along the river's course rather than across it, up to twenty metres high, and counted among the «seven wonders» of the state. The falls show well only when the river is low and vanish under the water in floods. The park opens to visitors from Wednesday to Sunday for a small admission fee, with a visitor centre and biodiversity exhibition at the entrance. From there a 15-kilometre dirt road leads by car to the falls area, which has shelters, toilets and barbecue spots but no electricity or drinking water. There is no lodging or camping in the park.
A linear waterfall.
Rare species.
With Argentina.
Derrubadas, north-west Rio Grande do Sul state, on the Uruguay River
When the Uruguay River is low; they vanish in floods.