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7 unusual facts about chaco


Alicia Mastandrea

She became director of planning for the municipality of Resistencia, Chaco in 1980 and also began to teach in her field at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste in Resistencia.

Elisa Carrió

Born in Resistencia, Chaco, in a traditional family, Carrió was a former teenage beauty queen.

FMA AeC.3

In 1935, Carola Lorenzini set a South American altitude record of 5,500 m (18,040 ft) in an AeC.3, and another aircraft of this type was flown by Santiago Germanó to win the aerobatics prize at the Resistencia air meet the same year.

Juan Manuel Silva

Juan Manuel Silva (born October 12, 1972 in Resistencia, Chaco), nicknamed el Pato ("the Duck") is an Argentine racing driver.

Lule language

Campbell (1997) writes that in 1981 there was an unconfirmed report that Lule is still spoken by 5 families in Resistencia in east-central Chaco Province.

Mirian Curletti

Curletti graduated as a librarian from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Resistencia in 1966 and in economics from the same institution in 1973.

Sanapaná language

Sanapana (Saapa'ang) is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco.


Abel González Chávez

In 1971, along with Édgar Perea, Fabio Poveda, Jorge Humberto Klee, Chaco Senior and Cheíto Feliciano, he created the Panamericana de la Costa radio station (from the Sutatenza radio station) during the Pan American Games in Cali to broadcast the games for the Colombian Caribbean region.

Alto Paraguay Department

The World Land Trust estimates deforestation in the Paraguay Chaco at over 200.000 hectare for 2008 alone

Ceiba chodatii

The dry chaco where this tree is found has dense spiny woodlands consisting of low trees and an understorey of Aspidosperma, Astronium, Schinopsis, Ceiba, and Bulnesia.

Chaco Wash

The Chaco Wash is an arroyo (a periodic stream) cutting through Chaco Canyon, which is located in northwestern New Mexico on the Colorado Plateau.

Elena Corregido

In 1995, Corregido joined the municipal government of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco, heading the Women's Unit, there until 1996.

Guido Rodríguez Alcalá

Because you would understand that Paraguay didn’t want to stay without its Chaco, neither Brazil wanted that a territory like the Chaco was given away to Argentina just like that, because back then, the Argentines reached Brazil until Mato Grosso and that could damage them.

Juan Manuel Torres

Juan Manuel Torres, better known as Chaco Torres (born 20 June 1985 in Puerto Vilelas, Chaco), is an Argentine football midfielder who plays in Ukraine for Metalist Kharkiv.

In September 2012, the Argentine fashion model Ivanna Palliotti left Buenos Aires and moved to Kharkiv for her boyfriend, the player of Metalist Kharkiv Chaco Torres.

Legacy of the May Revolution

There are departments of this name in the provinces of Chaco, Misiones, San Juan, Rio Negro, and Buenos Aires, the latter one holding the Veinticinco de Mayo city.

Leonel Altobelli

Leonel Víctor Altobelli (born 20 July 1986 in Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Buriram United in the Thai Premier League.

Napalpí massacre

One of the compounds was Napalpí, which means cemetery in the Toba language, its official name was Colonia Aborigen Chaco" (Chaco Aborigial Colony).

Palo santo

Bulnesia sarmientoi, a tree species native to the Gran Chaco area in South America

Paraguayan bolo mouse

It is found at elevations from 300 to 2030 m in a variety of habitats, including cerrado, chaco and heath pampas.

Paraguayan Civil War

Out of eleven army divisions, four joined the rebels-on March 8 the two infantry divisions at Concepcion rebelled, joined by the two Chaco infantry divisions a few days later.

Prosopis nigra

Prosopis nigra (synonym Prosopis algarrobilla) is a South American leguminous tree species that inhabits the Gran Chaco ecoregion (in particular, the transition zone between the Wet Chaco and the Southern Chaco), in Argentina and Paraguay.

Toba language

Toba-Maskoy language, a Mascoian language, one of several languages of the Paraguayan Chaco called Toba


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