Gran Chaco

American  

[grahn chah-kaw] / grɑn ˈtʃɑ kɔ /

noun

1. an extensive subtropical region in central South America, in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. 300,000 sq. mi. (777,000 sq. km).

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Gran Chaco British  

/ ɡran ˈtʃako /

noun

1. Often shortened to: Chaco.  a plain of S central South America, between the Andes and the Paraguay River in SE Bolivia, E Paraguay, and N Argentina: huge swamps and scrub forest Area: about 780 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Paraguay’s wildfires have been concentrated in its Gran Chaco region, which has some of the world’s highest deforestation rates, largely driven by cattle ranching.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2020

About 14% of Argentina’s planted soya is in the north of the country, where deforestation has laid waste to huge areas of the Gran Chaco forest.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

But difficulties reaching vector control targets remain in the Amazon basin and Gran Chaco regions of South America and in the border area between Guatemala and El Salvador, the report says.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2017

One Presidium is in the lowlands of the Gran Chaco, a bioregion encompassing parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017

The Gran Chaco, or “great hunting-ground” of Western Paraguay, is a land of wooded plains and little patches of primeval forest, about which astonishingly little is known even to-day.

From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by Hyrst, H. W. G.