Gran Chaco
The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is 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, where it is connected with the Pantanal region. This land is sometimes called the Chaco Plain.
| Gran Chaco Dry Chaco | |
|---|---|
Landscape in the Gran Chaco, Chaco Boreal, Paraguay | |
Dry Chaco as delimited by the World Wildlife Fund | |
| Ecology | |
| Realm | Neotropical |
| Biome | tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests |
| Borders | |
| Geography | |
| Area | 786,791 km2 (303,782 sq mi) |
| Countries | |
| Conservation | |
| Protected | 176,715 km² (22%) |
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