Moconá Falls are a waterfall covering 3 km from the Uruguay River, in the municipality of San Pedro, located northeast of Argentina’s Misiones province.
The uniqueness of these waterfalls, is that unlike the rest of the falls, is given in the fall is not longitudinally and transversely.
The meaning of the word Moconá, comes from the Guarani word, meaning “that swallows everything ‘, referring to the geographic fault generated by this landscape, which can not be seen 365 days a year due to the flooding experienced this river spring seasons, reaching the upper floor level main river channel.
Before becoming Moconá Provincial Park in 1991, this district is called Book Moconá, extension covering almost 1,000 hectares belonging to the agricultural entrepreneur Juan Alberto Harriet.
Included in the Provincial Park known as the biosphere Yabatí, the main channel to deriving water, is the union of the Uruguay River, Yabatí, Pepirí, Guazú, Serapio and Callisto. It should be noted also that in certain areas of the central corridor of the river, its depth reaches about 120 meters.
Iguazu Falls are the other attractive geological province of Misiones. More than 320 kilometers Moconá Falls, is the Iguazú National Park with the largest waterfall in Argentina, which reach a height of 80 meters fall.