Meanings
- 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 & antonyms
proper nounA 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.
Origin
- QuechuaHatun Chaku
- SpanishGran Chaco
- EnglishGran Chaco
Borrowed from Paraguayan Spanish Gran Chaco, from Spanish gran (“large; great; grand”) + Spanish chaco (“hunting ground”), a calque of Quechua Hatun Chaku.
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Chinese Mandarin 大廈谷 /大厦谷
- 大廈谷 /大厦谷 (Dà Shà Gǔ)Topographical region
Japanese グランチャコ
- グランチャコ (Guranchako)Topographical region
Korean 그란차코
- 그란차코 (Geuranchako)Topographical region
Russian Гран-Ча́ко, Вели́кий Ча́ко
- Гран-Ча́ко (Gran-Čáko)Topographical region
- Вели́кий Ча́ко (Velíkij Čáko)Topographical region
- Ча́ко (Čáko)Topographical region
Spanish Gran Chaco
- Gran ChacoTopographical region
Cite this entry
Gran Chaco. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gran%20Chaco
“Gran Chaco.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gran%20Chaco. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gran Chaco,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gran%20Chaco.
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