South America
Paraguay

Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco, is a vast semiarid lowland region in central South America, spanning over one million square kilometers across eastern , western , northern , and parts of .
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  • Type: Region
  • Description: region of Southern America
  • Also known as: “Dry Chaco”

Gran Chaco

Latitude
-20.09763° or 20° 5′ 52″ south
Longitude
-59.87392° or 59° 52′ 26″ west
Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)
Open location code
58F2W42G+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313928983
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
3444449
Wiki­data ID
Q208347
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Gran Chaco” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gran Chaco”
  • Arabic: “غران تشاكو”
  • Armenian: “Գրան Չակո”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qran-Cako”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qran-Çako”
  • Basque: “Chaco Handia”
  • Basque: “Gran Chaco”
  • Belarusian: “Гран-Чака”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्रान चाको”
  • Bhojpuri: “चाको मैदान”
  • Bhojpuri: “ड्राई चाको”
  • Bosnian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Breton: “Gran Chaco”
  • Bulgarian: “Гран Чако”
  • Catalan: “Gran Chaco”
  • Catalan: “Plana del Chaco”
  • Chinese: “大廈谷”
  • Chinese: “大查科”
  • Croatian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Czech: “Gran Chaco”
  • Czech: “Zelené peklo”
  • Danish: “Gran Chaco”
  • Dutch: “El Chaco”
  • Dutch: “El Gran Chaco”
  • Dutch: “Gran Chaco-gebied”
  • Dutch: “Gran Chaco”
  • Esperanto: “Gran Chaco”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Ĉako”
  • Finnish: “Chaco”
  • Finnish: “Gran Chaco”
  • Finnish: “Granchaco”
  • French: “Gran Chaco”
  • Galician: “Gran Chaco”
  • Galician: “rexión chaqueña”
  • Georgian: “გრან-ჩაკო”
  • German: “Chaco”
  • German: “Gran Chaco”
  • Guarani: “Chaco”
  • Guarani: “Cháko Guasu”
  • Guarani: “Chako”
  • Guarani: “Cháko”
  • Guarani: “Gran Chaco”
  • Hebrew: “גראן צ’אקו”
  • Hungarian: “Chaco”
  • Hungarian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Icelandic: “Gran Chaco”
  • Indonesian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Italian: “Chaco”
  • Italian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Japanese: “グラン・チャコ”
  • Japanese: “グラン・チャコ地”
  • Japanese: “グランチャコ”
  • Kirghiz: “Гран-чако”
  • Kirghiz: “Гран-Чако”
  • Korean: “그란 차코”
  • Korean: “그란차코”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Gran Chaco”
  • Lithuanian: “Gran Čakas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gran Čiakas”
  • Macedonian: “Гран Чако”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gran Chaco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gran Chaco”
  • Norwegian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Persian: “گران چاکو”
  • Persian: “گرن چاکو”
  • Polish: “Gran Chaco”
  • Portuguese: “Chaco”
  • Quechua: “Chaco”
  • Quechua: “Gran Chaco”
  • Quechua: “Hatun Chaku”
  • Quechua: “Jatun chaku”
  • Russian: “Гран-Чако”
  • Serbian: “Gran Čako”
  • Serbian: “Гран Чако”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Slovenian: “Gran Chaco”
  • Spanish: “El Chaco”
  • Spanish: “Gran Chaco Gualamba”
  • Spanish: “Gran Chaco”
  • Spanish: “Gualamba”
  • Spanish: “Llanura chaquena”
  • Spanish: “Llanura chaqueña”
  • Spanish: “Region chaquena”
  • Spanish: “Region chaqueña”
  • Spanish: “Región chaquena”
  • Spanish: “Región chaqueña”
  • Swedish: “Chaco Boreal”
  • Swedish: “El Chaco Boreal”
  • Swedish: “Gran Chaco”
  • Tajik: “Гран-Чако”
  • Turkish: “Gran Chaco”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Чако”
  • Ukrainian: “Гран-Чако”
  • Uzbek: “Gran-chako”
  • Uzbek: “Granchako”
  • Vietnamese: “Gran Chaco”
  • Welsh: “Gran Chaco”
  • Yiddish: “גראן טשאקא”
  • Yiddish: “טשאקא”
  • “ग्रान चाको”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gran Chaco”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 1.0.