Pilcomayo

American  

[peel-kaw-mah-yaw] / ˌpil kɔˈmɑ yɔ /

noun

1. a river in S central South America, flowing SE from S Bolivia along the boundary between Paraguay and Argentina to the Paraguay River at Asunción. 1,000 miles (1,610 km) long.

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Pilcomayo British  

/ pilkoˈmajo /

noun

1. a river in S central South America, rising in W central Bolivia and flowing southeast, forming the border between Argentina and Paraguay, to the Paraguay River at Asunción. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)

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Example Sentences

Attempting to outflank Fort Ballivian, Paraguay's shrewd General Jose Felix Estigarribia sent three full divisions inland from the Pilcomayo River.

From Time Magazine Archive

Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bolivians think that they might be able to push ships through the unsqueezed sponge of the Pilcomayo down to the Paraguay and on to Buenos Aires and the Atlantic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian.

From Time Magazine Archive

Important tributaries are the Pilcomayo, the Vermejo, and the Salado.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various