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    The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin...
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    Paraguay, over the control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region (known in Spanish as Chaco Boreal) of South America, which was thought to be rich...
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    The indigenous Gran Chaco people consist of approximately thirty-five tribal groups in the Gran Chaco of South America. Because, like the Great Plains...
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    Chaco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃako]; Wichi: To-kós-wet), officially the Province of Chaco (Spanish: provincia del Chaco [pɾoˈβinsja ðel ˈtʃako]), is...
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    than 3% of the population, the Chaco is one of the most sparsely inhabited areas in South America. The surrounding Gran Chaco area is also a large geographic...
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  • Chile Chaco War, a war fought between Paraguay and Bolivia Gran Chaco, a region in South America historically divided into Chaco Austral, Chaco Central...
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    of the Pilcomayo River. It is unintelligible with other languages of Gran Chaco, and is also spoken in Bolivia. From the Guaicuru group: Mocoví is from...
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    The following is a list of indigenous peoples of South America. These include the peoples living in South America in the pre-Columbian era and the historical...
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    a millennium before the arrival of the Spanish. Western Paraguay, the Gran Chaco, was inhabited by nomads of whom the Guaycuru peoples were the most prominent...
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    the river. He ordered the construction of a road in the swamps of the Gran Chaco along which the troops advanced to the northeast. At Villeta the army...
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    both utilitarian and ceremonial. The precontact ceramic tradition of the Gran Chaco was dramatically transformed under European colonization, which created...
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    on Indigenous cultures in the Great Plains of North America and in the Gran Chaco and Patagonia in South America. By domesticating horses, some tribes had...
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    Gran Chaco is a province in the eastern parts of the Bolivian department Tarija. The province voted to become an autonomous region on 6 December 2009....
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    Indigenous peoples in Bolivia (category Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco)
    the largest groups. The geography of Bolivia includes the Andes, the Gran Chaco, and the Amazon Rainforest. An additional 30-68% of the population is...
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    these are: Argentine Northwest: Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca Gran Chaco: Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero Mesopotamia (or Littoral): Misiones, Entre...
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    Green-cheeked parakeet (category Birds of the Gran Chaco)
    The green-cheeked parakeet (Pyrrhura molinae), known as the green-cheeked conure in aviculture, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family...
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    the Ayoreo people of the Gran Chaco are a small number of uncontacted nomadic hunter-gatherers in the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated...
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    primarily in Paraguay, as well as in Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Brazil, the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, and Southern Chile . It has also become popular in the Druze...
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    used in the Chaco War. The Chaco War was fought from 1932-1935 between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region (known...
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    Chacoan peccary (category Gran Chaco)
    last extant species of the genus Catagonus; it is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. Approximately 3,000 remain in the...
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  • Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area (Parque Nacional y Area Natural de Manejo Integrado Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco) is the...
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    participation. Bolivia's defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932–1935), where Bolivia lost a great part of the Gran Chaco region in dispute, marked a turning-point...
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    Approximate region of the Gran Chaco...
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    of the plant are poisonous. Members of the Toba-Pilagá ethnic group of Gran Chaco traditionally eat the ripe fruits raw. English common names include: angular...
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  • indígenas en aislamiento voluntario y contacto inicial en la Amazonia y el Gran Chaco. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. p. 289....
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    Guaraní War (category Gran Chaco)
    The Guaraní War (Spanish: Guerra Guaranítica, Portuguese: Guerra Guaranítica) of 1756, also called the War of the Seven Reductions, took place between...
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    pronunciation: [fi.laˈðel.fja]) is the capital of Boquerón Department in the Gran Chaco of western Paraguay. It is the centre of the Fernheim Colony. The city...
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  • nomads of Central Asia, the Plains Indians, the Guaycuru peoples of the Gran Chaco, and the Mapuche and Tehuelche of Patagonia after horses were imported...
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    Toba people (category Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco)
    provinces of Salta, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Formosa and the province of Gran Chaco in the southeast of the Department of Tarija in Bolivia (which the Qom...
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    Blue-crowned parakeet (category Birds of the Gran Chaco)
    The blue-crowned parakeet, blue-crowned conure, or sharp-tailed conure (Thectocercus acuticaudatus) is a small green Neotropical parrot with a blue head...
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