Chaco


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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chaco

a province in northern Argentina, in the basin of the Paraná and Bermejo rivers. Area, 99,600 sq km. Population, 566,600 (1970). The capital of Chaco is the city of Resistencia. Chaco is a major cotton-growing region. Livestock are raised for meat. Industry includes quebracho lumbering and the production of tanning extract.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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But, after three years of combat operations, it was Paraguay that prevailed, expelling Bolivia from the Chaco and acquiring, under the terms of the peace treaty, most of the disputed territory.
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Por lo tanto, resulta imprescindible identificar las especies que caracterizan las principales comunidades vegetales y los disturbios naturales y antropicos en el Chaco. Al respecto, existe informacion de estudios ecologicos que demuestran que algunas plantas se comportan como indicadoras de los disturbios mencionados.
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A team from the local Astronomy Association of Chaco dug the huge space rock out of the ground on September 10th, and images of the find soon flooded the internet.
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