Patagonia
/ˌpatəˈɡəʊnɪə
/A region of South America, in southern Argentina and Chile. Consisting largely of a dry barren plateau, it extends from the Colorado River in central Argentina to the Strait of Magellan and from the Andes to the Atlantic coast.
Origin
From obsolete Patagon, denoting a member of a native people alleged by travellers of the 17th and 18th cents to be the tallest known.