{"id":523945,"date":"2026-09-21T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=523945"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:00:13","slug":"video-el-nino-makes-iguazu-falls-swell-to-more-than-8-million-liters-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/the-weather\/video-el-nino-makes-iguazu-falls-swell-to-more-than-8-million-liters-per-second\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: El Ni\u00f1o makes Iguaz\u00fa Falls swell to more than 8 million liters per second"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flow of the Iguaz\u00fa River at Iguaz\u00fa Falls, on the border between Argentina and Brazil, exceeded 8 million liters per second due to heavy rainfall in the river basin and the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to experts, the falls recorded flow rates ranging from 6,580 to more than 12,000 cubic meters per second, with peaks exceeding 8.37 million liters per second during the most intense moments of the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The increased flow transformed the iconic falls into an even more powerful spectacle, as massive volumes of water surged through the falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf0a\ud83d\udea8 EL NI\u00d1O HACE CRECER A LAS CATARATAS DEL IGUAZ\u00da<br><br>El caudal del r\u00edo Iguaz\u00fa super\u00f3 los 8 millones de litros por segundo, con picos de entre 6.580 y m\u00e1s de 12.000 m\u00b3\/s. \ud83d\udca6\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mbTQdZ9nw1\">pic.twitter.com\/mbTQdZ9nw1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 123.news (@123newsok) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/123newsok\/status\/2101801325549998154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flow of the Iguaz\u00fa River at Iguaz\u00fa Falls, on the border between Argentina and Brazil, exceeded 8 million liters per second due to heavy rainfall in the river basin and the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon. According to experts, the falls recorded flow rates ranging from 6,580 to more than 12,000 cubic meters per second, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":523946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[41284],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-523945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-weather","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2ciJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/150311150350-iguazu-3.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["The Weather"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/150311150350-iguazu-3.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}