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 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 ====