Gran Chaco Dry Chaco | |
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![]() 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%)[1] |
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, 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.