Gran Chaco

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Gran Chaco Dry Chaco
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	List Argentine Espinal Argentine Monte Bolivian Yungas Chiquitano dry forests High Monte Humid Chaco Pantanal Southern Andean Yungas
Geography
Area	786,791 km2 (303,782 sq mi)
Countries	Paraguay Bolivia Argentina Brazil
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.