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Gran Chaco

Gran Chaco proper noun: 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.

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

Synonyms of Gran Chaco

Origin of Gran Chaco

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

Questions about Gran Chaco

What does Gran Chaco mean?
Gran Chaco means 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.
What part of speech is Gran Chaco?
Gran Chaco is a proper noun.

Words near Gran Chaco in the dictionary

  1. Gramscists
  2. Gramza
  3. Gramzas
  4. gran
  5. Gran Canaria
  6. Gran Chaco
  7. Gran Colombia
  8. Gran Colombian
  9. Gran Colombians
  10. Gran Paradiso
  11. gran'ma

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