Resort
Iguazú, Brazil
9.4
Belmond Hotel das Cataratas
The only hotel inside Brazil's Iguassu National Park, a rose-pink Portuguese-colonial retreat with the falls to itself before the gates open.
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Region
South America
Patagonian lodges and beachfront legends.
6 hotels profiled in South America
Lakeside Hotel
Bariloche, Argentina
9.2
Llao Llao Resort, Golf & Spa
Argentina's alpine icon of 1940, a log-and-stone grand hotel on a rise between two Patagonian lakes in Nahuel Huapi National Park.
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City Hotel
Buenos Aires, Argentina
9.1
Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Buenos Aires
A 1930s aristocratic palace and a sleek modern tower joined by terraced gardens on Avenida Alvear, with one of the continent's great cheese cellars.
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City Hotel
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9.0
Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel
Rio's white Art Deco monument on Copacabana beach, hosting a century of carnival glamour around South America's most famous hotel pool.
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City Hotel
Buenos Aires, Argentina
9.0
Alvear Palace Hotel
Recoleta's French-classical grande dame of 1932, the ceremonial heart of Buenos Aires society and its most celebrated afternoon tea.
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City Hotel
Lima, Peru
8.8
Country Club Lima Hotel
A 1927 hacienda-style landmark in leafy San Isidro, hung with museum-loaned colonial art and facing the fairways of Lima's grandest golf club.
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