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

The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers.

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

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

Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers.

From Time Magazine Archive

As hitherto, it continues up the bank of the Pilcomayo, and at intervals they observe the tracks of Francesca’s pony, where they have not been trampled out by the other horses behind.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.