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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of central South America rising in central Bolivia and flowing about 1,610 km (1,000 mi) southeast along the Argentina-Paraguay border to the Paraguay River.
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Here the four of us are on the road from Sucre to Potosi, posing in front of the Pilcomayo River, which forms the border between the departments of Chuquisaca and Potosi.
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However, some large and intact regions still persist in Bolivia, such as the forests between the Pilcomayo and Pilaya rivers in Montes Chapeados that span ~1300 km2.
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Argentina also has several reserves in the Chaco, primarily in the northern Argentine Chaco (RN Formosa, PNs Pilcomayo, Baritú, Callilegua, El Rey, and RPs Agua Dulce, Potreros de Yala, El Bagual), with a couple in the central (RP Los Palmares and RP Copo) and southern (RP Chaco) regions.
Chaco 2007
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Ohio; the Pilcomayo, Vermejo, and Salado rivers, to the River Platte, the Arkansas, and the Red River in the United States; while the rivers farther south, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, represent the rivers of
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The Pilcomayo, which empties its waters into the Paraguay, is one of the most mysterious of rivers.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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The Pilcomayo, which has proved itself the river of death to so many brave men, remains to this day unexplored.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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The still wild Chulupí of the Pilcomayo, however, resemble the latter tribes in physique and warlike character.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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They are of Guaycuran linguistic stock, which includes also the Abipón, Mocoví, and a number of other tribes of similar predatory habit, and range, in alliance with the Mocoví, through the forests and marshes of the Chaco region on the west bank of the Paraguay River about the lower Pilcomayo and Vermejo, in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Plata is built on a plateau, 8837 feet above the level of the sea, on the Cochimayo, a tributary of the Pilcomayo, flowing into it from the left, and is the metropolis of the department of Chuquisaca, numbering 20,907 inhabitants (1900), chiefly Indians and Mestizos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The lands known as the 'Chaco' district, lying between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers, are said to be the best for grazing purposes in all South America.
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