The Gran Chaco
1892; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14702549208553896
ISSN0036-9225
Autores Tópico(s)Indigenous Cultures and History
ResumoTHE Gran Chaco is a region lying in the interior of the southern portion of South America.The origin of the name is uncertain, but the derivation most usually accepted is that given by Padre Lozano, one of the early historians of Paraguay.He points out that in the Quichua tongue the word Chacu means a drive of wild animals, and makes out that this name came to be applied to the Chaco from the wholesale flight of the Peruvians into its fastnesses, on the invasion of their country by Pizarro and his Spaniards.In the older writings we find the name given as " E1 Gran Chaco Gualamba," but in the present day only the shorter form is used.The extent of the Gran Chaco is, we may say, in the one direction between 20 ° and 30 ° S. latitude; and in the other between the Andes and Rio Salado, and the Paraguay-Paran~--in all an area of something like 180,000 square miles.Physiographically, this region is divided into three sections by the rivers Bermejo and Pilcomayo, which cross it diagonally from the Andes to the Paraguay; and the three sections so formed are named Chaco Austral, Chaco Central, and Chaco Boreal, respectively.Politically, the division of the Chaco is again into three parts : between the republics of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.Argentina holds the Chaco Austral and the Chaco Central, which form two of her federal territories and are
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