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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Gran Chaco

The main areas affected are the Gran Chaco forest that straddles Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Brazilian and Bolivian Amazon, the Pantanal wetlands shared by Brazil and Paraguay, and Argentina’s vast Paraná Delta wetlands.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2020

The Guardian visited the Gran Chaco and saw bulldozers at work.

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

To cure the painful and dangerous wound inflicted by a ray-fish, the Indians of the Gran Chaco smoke the wounded limb and then cause a woman in her courses to sit astride of it.

From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Frazer, James George, Sir