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

Translations

Topographical region

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大廈谷 / 大厦谷 (Dà Shà Gǔ)

• Guarani: Cháko
• Japanese: グランチャコ (Guranchako)
• Korean: 그란차코 (Geuranchako)
• Quecha: Hatun Chaku
• Russian: Гран-Ча́ко (Gran-Čáko), Вели́кий Ча́ко (Velíkij Čáko), Ча́ко (Čáko)
• Spanish: Gran Chaco m