Gran Chaco

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Paraguayan Spanish Gran Chaco, from Spanish gran (“large; great; grand”) +‎ Spanish chaco (“hunting ground”), a calque of Quechua Hatun Chaku.

Proper noun

the Gran Chaco

  1. A sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
    Synonyms: Chaco Plain, Dry Chaco

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