English Explanatory Dictionary

Gran Chaco

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  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.

Word forms

Gran Chaco the Gran Chaco

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Chaco Plain Dry Chaco
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