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The common iguana or green iguana Iguana iguana is a large arboreal lizard from Central America and South America. It is found from Mexico to the southeast of Brazil and the Pantanal del Paraguay, as well as in Caribbean islands and, in a feral manner, in Florida United States. They measure up to 2 m in length from head to tail and can weigh more than 15 kg. It belongs to the largest and most complicated group of saurians of the New World, to which most species belong. It is included in the iguanid family. This was photographed in the `Hato El Cedral`, Apure State, Venezuela.