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	Gran Chaco
		Il Gran Chaco è una delle principali regioni geografiche del Sud America che si estende tra i fiumi Paraguay e Paraná e l'altopiano andino.
		Il Gran Chaco fu un territorio conteso fin dal 1810.
		Nel 1995, il Kaa Iya del Parco Nazionale del Gran Chaco è stato creato in una zona Chaco boliviano.
	www.paraguay.it /chaco.html (298 words)

	Gran Chaco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gran Chaco (Quechua chaqu, "hunting land"), dubbed by some as "the last South American frontier", is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided between Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and a small portion in Brazil called Mato Grosso.
		It was the scene of The Gran Chaco War (1932-1935) (though violence started as early as December 5, 1928) between Paraguay and Bolivia over supposed oil in the Chaco Boreal (a region north of the Pilcomayo River and to the west of the Paraguay River).
		The ecosystems of the Gran Chaco are unique and are slowly being destroyed by civilization with the introduction of cattle, burning of vegetation and irresponsible agricultural decisions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gran_Chaco (649 words)

	Gran Chaco - LoveToKnow 1911
		GRAN CHACO, an extensive region in the heart of South America belonging to the La Plata basin, stretching from 20° to 29° S. lat., and divided between the republics of Argentine, Bolivia and Paraguay, with a small district of south-western Matto Grosso (Brazil).
		In general terms the Gran Chaco may be described as a great plain sloping gently to the S.E., traversed in the same direction by two great rivers, the Pilcomayo and Bermejo, whose sluggish courses are not navigable because of sand-banks, barriers of overturned trees and floating vegetation, and confusing channels.
		The forest wealth of the Chaco region is incalculable and apparently inexhaustible, consisting of a great variety of palms and valuable cabinet woods, building timber, andc.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gran_Chaco (337 words)

	Gran Chaco - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is arid land, dotted with swamps in the rainy season and with stretches of dense forest in which the quebracho tree abounds.
		Technically the Gran Chaco was intended to be part of Bolivia since it had been part of the audiencia of Charcas, but Bolivia paid little attention to this wasteland and Paraguayan settlers opened up the region while Paraguayan soldiers pushed back the natives.
		Three quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal went to Paraguay; at the same time Bolivia was granted a corridor to the Paraguay River, the privilege of using Puerto Casado, and the right to construct a Bolivian port.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-granchac.html (498 words)

	Gran Chaco. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The discovery of oil in a narrow strip of the barren section of the Chaco Boreal, at the foot of the Bolivian Andes, precipitated the Chaco War, 1932–35, between Bolivia and Paraguay.
		Technically the Gran Chaco was intended to be part of Bolivia since it had been part of the audiencia of Charcas, but Bolivia paid little attention to this wasteland and Paraguayan settlers opened up the region while Paraguayan soldiers pushed back the natives.
		Three quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal went to Paraguay; at the same time Bolivia was granted a corridor to the Paraguay River, the privilege of using Puerto Casado, and the right to construct a Bolivian port.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GranChac.html (412 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA22, Gran Chaco, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eighty percent of the region is in La Plata River watershed; its major tributaries crossing the Gran Chaco are the Pilcomayo, Bermejo (Teuco) and Juramento-Salado rivers.
		In Argentina, indigenous Mataco inhabit Salta and Tobas in the provinces of Formosa and Chaco.
		The ecosystems of the Gran Chaco are relatively fragile and susceptible to erosion by wind and water.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa22.htm (2824 words)

	gran - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Esztergom (German Gran), city in northern Hungary, in Komárom-Esztergom County, located on the Danube River, near Budapest.
		Gran Chaco, region in south central South America, covering about 647,500 sq km (about 250,000 sq mi), and encompassing part of Argentina, Paraguay,...
		Gran Pajonal, plateau region in Peru, in the east central foothills of the Andes Mountains.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /gran.html (87 words)

	The Chaco War
		The Chaco Boreal is a region of land occupying approximately 100,000 square miles in Northwestern Paraguay, Southeastern Bolivia, and Northern Argentina.
		It was difficult for soldiers to survive the harsh climate of the Chaco region.
		The Chaco Boreal's land is flat and marked by scrub woodlands to the West of the River Paraguay that include the quebracho tree, a valuable source of minerals.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/ice/CHACO.HTM (1475 words)

	The Gran Chaco War, 1928-1935
		The Gran Chaco is the most inhospitable part of the inhospitable Chaco Boreal, a largely uninhabited, 250,000 sq-mi region west of the Paraguay River and east of the foothills of the Andes in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina.
		In the west, near the mountains, the Gran Chaco is a flat, sparsely vegetated, waterless plain.
		In the sweltering Gran Chaco, it was a disaster.
	worldatwar.net /chandelle/v1/v1n3/chaco.html (4349 words)

	Service Fall 2006 - Grand Plan for Gran Chaco
		The indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco region are spread across nearly 400,000 square miles of central South America, spanning parts of three countries: Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
		This program is a coordinated effort to defend and promote the rights of the native peoples of Chaco, who are trying to survive in an historically adverse context.
		Another goal is to make the indigenous peoples' voice heard in the policymaking process and in the discussion and implementation of infrastructure and other development projects, in which they are not currently consulted.
	www.churchworldservice.org /service/fall06/chaco.html (450 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gran Chaco, Latin America & Caribbean Islands (Latin American And Caribbean Physical Geography) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gran Chaco[grAn chA´kO] Pronunciation Key or Chaco, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extensive lowland plain, central South America.
		The eastern part : the Chaco Austral and the region W of the Paraguay River : is the only habitable section of the Gran Chaco.
		The discovery of oil in a narrow strip of the barren section of the Chaco Boreal, at the foot of the Bolivian Andes, precipitated the Chaco War, 1932–35, between Bolivia and Paraguay.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GranChac.html (513 words)

	Chaco Footwear -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although 'Chaco' has yet to finish High School, he is an extremly successful youth for working a full time job while attending school and becoming an Eagle Scout at 16.
		Chaco Province is in the north of Argentina, near the border of Paraguay.
		Closer to the mountains in the west, the ''Alto Chaco'', is very dry and sparsely vegetated, but as you move eastward, to the ''Bajo Chaco'', you encounter lots of thornbrush jungle with quebracho trees and grassy clearings with a wealth of insects.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/29/chaco-footwear.html (1196 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gran
		Gran Chaco GRAN CHACO [Gran Chaco] or Chaco, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extensive lowland plain, central South America.
		Gran Sasso d'Italia GRAN SASSO D'ITALIA [Gran Sasso d'Italia], mountain group of the central Apennines, in Abruzzi, central Italy.
		Flowing generally southward, it forms the border between Brazil and Paraguay in the pantanal, then crosses the center of Paraguay, dividing the Gran Chaco from E Paraguay.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Gran (670 words)

	Genetic Structure and Gene Flow in Gran Chaco Populations of Argentina: Evidence from Y-Chromosome Markers Human ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We conclude that the male lineages present in the contemporary Gran Chaco population reflect the level of diversity found in South America and that the region's male founders did not carry a restricted gene pool.
		Therefore the Gran Chaco could be one of the last regions in the world to be colonized by humans.
		Culturally as well as ecologically, the Gran Chaco is a transitional zone between the tropical plains of the Amazon basin and the pampas of Argentina.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200406/ai_n9427054 (890 words)

	The Gran Chaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Gran Chaco is an alluvial plain covered with grass and hardwood forest in northeastern Argentina, northwestern Paraguay and southeastern Bolivia.
		The stamps of Paraguay, issued in 1932, show the Gran Chaco as "Chaco Paraguayo" with the slogan "Has been, is, and will be." Shortly after this the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay began.
		Most of the Chaco was awared to Paraguay, but Bolivia retained navigation rights on the Pilcomayo River to the coast.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/chaco.htm (210 words)

	Chaco War - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Chaco War (1932-1935), conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco, a sparsely populated region to which both countries laid claim....
		Paraguayan history after the war was largely an effort to reconstruct the country.
		The Paraguay-Bolivia boundary dispute arose over the Chaco Boreal, a low region lying north of the Pilcomayo River and west of the Paraguay River and...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Chaco_War.html (101 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Paraguay - The Chaco
		The Gran Chaco Americano is the largest dry forest in South America and the continent’s most extensive forested region after Amazonia.
		The Chaco is home to approximately 500 bird species, 150 species of mammals, 120 species of reptiles and 100 species of amphibians.
		This publication, called the Gran Chaco Ecoregional Assessment, is providing guidance for the Conservancy and partners in Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, to manage areas identified for biodiversity conservation.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/southamerica/paraguay/work/art5109.html (735 words)

	TVE: News
		GRAN CHACO ON BBC WORLD TV Participants in the Gran Chaco Electronic Conference (and TVE web-site visitors) are invited to comment on the draft script for TVE's WWF Earth Report on the Gran Chaco.
		"The Gran Chaco is suffering from environmental degradation and the loss of unknown numbers of it's animals and plant species.
		"The primitive landscape of the Gran Chaco was mostly parkland with hardwoods and grasslands.
	www.tve.org /news/doc.cfm?aid=290 (2149 words)

	The My Hero Project - The Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National ParkKaalyaChacoPark
		The Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park is the largest protected tropical dry forest in the world, Bolivia’s largest national park at 8.4 million acres, and by some accounts, the largest national park in all of South America.
		The neotropical park, the most biodiverse and best-preserved area of the Gran Chaco ecoregion, was created through careful planning and dedication by the indigenous peoples through the Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Izozog (CABI), working closely with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
		The Kaa Iya del Gran Chaco National Park was officially established in September of 1995.
	myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=KaalyaChacoPark (770 words)

	Gran Chaco — FactMonster.com
		This is arid land, dotted with swamps in the rainy season and with stretches of dense forest in which the
		The discovery of oil in a narrow strip of the barren section of the Chaco Boreal, at the foot of the Bolivian Andes, precipitated the
		Chaco - Chaco, Chaco Austral, Chaco Boreal, Chaco Central,and Chaco War:see Gran Chaco.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0821510.html (447 words)

	GRAN CHACO - Online Information article about GRAN CHACO
		BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat.
		Amazon basin, which is sometimes described as part of the Chaco.
		wealth of the Chaco region is incalculable and apparently inexhaustible, consisting of a great variety of palms and valuable See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GRAN_CHACO.html (503 words)

	Bolivia Paraguay Chaco War 1932-1935
		Chaco War (1932-35), costly conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay.
		Hostile incidents began as early as 1928 over the Chaco Boreal, a wilderness region of about 100,000 square miles (259,000 square km) north of the Pilcomayo River and west of the Paraguay River that forms part of the Gran Chaco.
		In June the Bolivians seized Paraguayan positions in the northern Chaco and launched a successful attack in the central Chaco against Fortín Boquerón.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/charlie/chaco1932.htm (645 words)

	Armor of the Gran Chaco War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The article is primarily intended to provide a broad introduction to tank deployment during the Chaco war and to give an overview of the differences between the various vehicles discussed.
		The Gran Chaco war was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay between 1932 and 1935.
		Consequently it was Bolivia that dominated the skies above the Gran Chaco and it was to her that the dubious honor fell of being the first (and to this day only) S-American country to use tanks in battle in a fully declared war against another nation on S-American soil.
	www.brushfirewars.org /armor/gran_chaco_war_armor/gran_chaco_war_armor.htm (1900 words)

	Spain Presents Award to WCS Partner in Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CABI manages the sprawling 13,000-square-mile Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park, created in 1995 by the Bolivian government to safeguard the world's largest remaining tract of Chaco dry forest, a habitat type in Latin America second only to the Amazonian rain forest in size.
		Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park is the only park in the Americas established and administered by indigenous people.
		Currently CABI is in the process of securing title to a 7,300-square-mile territorial claim that borders the park on the west, which includes some of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the Chaco outside of the park.
	www.wcs.org /353624/194277 (405 words)

	The Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management
		During the period 1932 to 1935 Paraguay and Bolivia fought a desperate war over the ownership of the Gran Chaco, an arid, unsettled area occupied by Paraguay.
		Argentinian citizens lived and worked in Puerto Casada and operated the railroad that ran from the port into the Gran Chaco, the key logistics route for Paraguay.
		As a result the Bolivian strategic air campaign was halted, and further Bolivian operations were restricted to the Chaco theater of war.
	www.richmond.edu /~wgreen/ECDchaco.html (646 words)

	CRES Projects: Biodiversity Conservation in the Argentinean Chaco
		Owl monkeys, giant armadillos, and giant anteaters, three species on which the Zoological Society of San Diego is focusing research in the Argentinean Chaco, were listed among the 19 priority mammal species for the Chaco Region.
		Identificaiton of conservation priorities for the mammals of the South American Chaco was one of many results from a five-day workshop attended by Conservation Research Fellow Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque and organized by The Nature Conservancy.
		Copo is the only national park protecting the dry Chaco of Argentina and supports the only viable population of giant armadillos in the country, as well as important numbers of giant anteaters.
	cres.sandiegozoo.org /projects/hc_biodiversity_chaco.html (489 words)

	Animal Info - Chacoan Peccary
		Diurnal in nature, it lives in semi-arid thorn forest in areas of low rainfall and high temperature in the driest parts of the Gran Chaco.
		The Chacoan peccary is found in semi-arid thorn forest in areas of low rainfall and high temperature in the driest parts of the Gran Chaco.
		Its prime habitat is thorn forest characterized by emergent trees, a dense shrub layer and a ground cover of bromeliads and cacti.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/catawagn.htm (607 words)

	Military Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet, that was one of the factors leading to the Chaco War.
		Paraguay, having lost most of its territory to its neighbors during the War of the Triple Alliance, needed the Gran Chaco just to stay on the map.
		The Chaco War saw the use of armor and aircraft on both sides.
	www.angelfire.com /tx4/bustersbattery/militrivia/MILITRIVIA17.html (311 words)

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