The famed Iguazu falls that straddle the border of Brazil and Argentina have been hit hard by a drought and are dumping less than a third of their usual volume into a river below.
The amount of water flowing at one of South America's biggest tourist destinations is now 480,000 liters (127,000 gallons) per second. That's down from the normal 1.7 million liters (436,000 gallons) per second this time of year.
Images of the falls, four times the width of Niagara in the U.S. and Canada, show bare rocks and a trickle of water descending into the Iguazu River.
Specialist Walszon Terllizzie of Brazil's National Water Agency said Thursday that the cascades are dry because of a two-month drought in Brazil's Parana state.
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