List of Guarani toponyms
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- Carcarañá: "devil caracara".
- Chajarí: "river of the chajá".[1]
- Curuzú Cuatiá: "engraved cross".
- Garupá: "land of canoes".[2]
- Gualeguaychú: "river of the big tiger" and other meanings, no consensus reached.[3]
- Ibicuy: "powdered earth".
- Iguazú: "big water".[4]
- Itatí: "stone tip", or "stone nose".[5][6]
- Ituzaingó: "hanging waterfall".[7]
- Mburucuyá: "Passiflora".
- Oberá: named after a Guarani chieftain.
- Paraná River: "Copious River"[8]
- Villaguay: "snake cave river".[9]
- Yapeyú: "ripe fruit", or "the place where wind blows".
- Yuquerí: plant species similar to blackberries.
Bolivia
- Guayaramerín: "small waterfall".
- Saipurú: "bubbling water".[10]
Brazil
- Camaquã: "black cave" or "nipple hole".[11]
- Iguaçu: "big water".[4]
- Itaipu: "sounding stone".[12]
- Itaqui: "stony sand".
- Jacuí: "water pheasant".[11]
- Jaguarão: "water jaguar".[11]
- Mirim Lagoon: "small water".
- Quaraí: "water coming out of a well".[11]
- Vacacaí: a composed term, Spanish vaca ("cow") and Guarani ca-á y ("burnt grasses").[11]