Chaco
The Argentinian Chaco is a region in the north of Argentina. It is the Argentinian portion of the Chaco, a South American region that includes parts of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Resistencia and Formosa.
Resistencia
Photo: Carlos Berzzi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Resistencia is a city in Chaco, Argentina. It is known as City of Sculptures, with more than 600 sculptures across the city. Bienal Internacional de Esculturas is the main attraction, in a week you can see how artists from all over the world make sculptures.
Formosa
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Formosa is the capital city of the Argentine province of Formosa, on the banks of the Paraguay River, opposite the Paraguayan town of Alberdi, about 1,200 km north from Buenos Aires, on National Route 11.
Clorinda
Photo: Ulises Icardi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Clorinda is a city of 47,000 in Formosa Province in the Chaco region of Argentina. Located 115 km north of the provincial capital, Formosa, Clorinda is just across the border from Asunción.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Río Pilcomayo National Park.
Río Pilcomayo National Park
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Río Pilcomayo National Park is a protected natural area in the Chaco region of northern Argentina. The park includes areas of flat grasslands that flood seasonally as well as permanent wetlands along the shores of the Pilcomayo River.
Chaco
- Type: province of Argentina with 984,000 residents
- Description: province of Argentina
- Also known as: “Chaco Province”, “Gobernación del Chaco”, “Presidente Perón”, “Territorio del Chaco”, and “Territorio Nacional del Chaco”
- Neighbors: Corrientes, Salta, and Santa Fe
- Location: Argentina, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chaco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشاكو”
- Arabic: “شاكو (محافظة)”
- Arabic: “شاكو (محافظه)”
- Arabic: “محافظة شاكو”
- Armenian: “Չակո”
- Aymara: “Chaku jisk’a suyu”
- Basque: “Chaco probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Чака”
- Belarusian: “Чака”
- Bengali: “ক্যাকো প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “Chaco”
- Bulgarian: “Чако”
- Catalan: “Província del Chaco”
- Cebuano: “Provincia del Chaco”
- Chinese: “Chaco Séng”
- Chinese: “查哥省”
- Chinese: “查科省”
- Czech: “Chaco”
- Danish: “Chaco”
- Danish: “Provincia del Chaco”
- Danish: “Provinsen Chaco”
- Dutch: “Chaco”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة تشاكو”
- Esperanto: “Ĉako”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Ĉako”
- Estonian: “Chaco provints”
- Finnish: “Chacon maakunta”
- French: “Chaco”
- French: “Province de Chaco”
- French: “Province du Chaco”
- Galician: “El Chaco”
- Galician: “O Chaco”
- Galician: “provincia de El Chaco”
- Galician: “provincia do Chaco”
- Galician: “Provincia do Chaco”
- Georgian: “ჩაკოს პროვინცია”
- German: “Chaco”
- German: “Provinz Chaco”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Τσάκο”
- Greek: “Τσάκο”
- Gujarati: “ચાકો પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “צ’אקו”
- Hindi: “चाको प्रांत”
- Hindi: “चाको”
- Hungarian: “Chaco tartomány”
- Icelandic: “Chaco”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Chaco”
- Italian: “Chaco”
- Italian: “Provincia del Chaco”
- Japanese: “チャコ州”
- Kannada: “ಚಾಕೋ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “차코주”
- Ladino: “Chaco”
- Latin: “Chaco”
- Latin: “provincia Tzaci”
- Latin: “Tzacum”
- Latvian: “Čako province”
- Lithuanian: “Čako provincija”
- Lithuanian: “Čiako provincija”
- Lombard: “Chaco”
- Macedonian: “Чако”
- Malay: “Wilayah Chaco”
- Marathi: “चाको प्रांत”
- Marathi: “चाको”
- Mazanderani: “چاکو اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chaco Séng”
- Nepali: “चाको क्षेत्र”
- Northern Frisian: “Chaco”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chaco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chacoprovinsen”
- Norwegian: “Chaco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província deu Chaco”
- Ossetian: “Чако”
- Persian: “استان چاکو”
- Persian: “چاکو”
- Piemontese: “Chaco”
- Polish: “Chaco”
- Portuguese: “Chaco”
- Portuguese: “Província de Chaco”
- Quechua: “Chaku wamani”
- Romanian: “Provincia Chaco”
- Russian: “провинция Чако”
- Russian: “Чако (Аргентина)”
- Russian: “Чако (провинция)”
- Russian: “Чако”
- Samogitian: “Čiaka provincėjė”
- Scots: “Chaco Province”
- Serbian: “Чако”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chaco (provincija, Argentina)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chaco”
- Sinhala: “චකෝ පළාත, ආර්ජන්ටිනාව”
- Sinhala: “චකෝ පළාත”
- Slovak: “Chaco”
- Slovenian: “Chaco”
- South Azerbaijani: “چاکو ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Chaco”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Chaco”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Chaco”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Chaco”
- Swedish: “Chaco”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Chaco”
- Tajik: “Чако”
- Tamil: “சாகோ மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Чако (правинсә)”
- Tatar: “Чако”
- Telugu: “చాకో ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “చాకో రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “รัฐชาโก”
- Turkish: “Chaco eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Chaco”
- Ukrainian: “Чако”
- Urdu: “صوبہ چاکو”
- Uzbek: “Chaco provinsiyasi”
- Venetian: “Chaco Province”
- Venetian: “Provincia del Chaco”
- Vietnamese: “Chaco”
- Volapük: “Chaco”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chaco”
- Welsh: “Talaith Chaco”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ چاکو”
- Wu Chinese: “查科省”
- Yue Chinese: “查哥省”
- “Chaco”
- “Čiaka provincėjė”
- “Provincia del Chaco”
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