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Chaco Province. Chaco ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃako]; Wichi: To-kós-wet [4] ), officially the Province of Chaco ( Spanish: provincia del Chaco [pɾoˈβinsja ðel ˈtʃako] ), is one of the 23 provinces in Argentina. Its capital and largest city, is Resistencia. [5] It is located in the north-east of the country.
The Gran Chaco is about 647,500 km 2 (250,000 sq mi) in size, though estimates differ. It is located west of the Paraguay River and east of the Andes, and is mostly an alluvial sedimentary plain shared among Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. It stretches from about 17 to 33°S latitude and between 65 and 60°W longitude, though estimates differ.
The Paraguayan Chaco or Región Occidental (Western Region) is a semi-arid region in Paraguay, with a very low population density. [citation needed] The area is being rapidly deforested. [1] Consisting of more than 60% of Paraguay's land area, but with less than 3% of the population, the Chaco is one of the most sparsely inhabited areas in ...
Resistencia ( pronounced [resisˈtensja] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Chaco in north-eastern Argentina. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city proper was 291,720 inhabitants. [1] It is the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, Greater Resistencia, which comprises at least three more municipalities ...
The actual cultural area of the Gran Chaco peoples differs from that of the geographic Gran Chaco. The northwestern boundary of the cultural area is the Parapetí River and the marshes of the Bañados de Izozog depression, beyond which were the lands of the cultural unrelated Chané and Chiriguano. The cultural boundaries have not been static ...
Political organization. Argentina is a federation of twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. Provinces are divided for administration purposes into departments and municipalities, except for Buenos Aires Province, which is divided into partidos and localidades. Buenos Aires City itself is divided into communes ( comuna ...
The Chaco National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Chaco) is a national park of Argentina, located in the province of Chaco. It has an area of 150 km 2 . It was created in 1954 in order to protect a sample of the Eastern Chaco, composed mainly of warm lowlands, with an annual summer rainfall between 750 and 1,300 mm.
Unpredictable rainfall. Little building at Pueblo Bonito [1] 1000. "Chaco phenomenon" acceleration of cultural development. 1000-1075. Great House construction, and roads expanded. The first usage of chocolate further than central Mexico was first used in ceramic cylinders for rituals. [6] 1000-1140.
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