Meaning of zúngaro by Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

Zúngaro, or better Zungaro, is the name of a genus of large fish in the family Pimelodidae. It is one of the common names of a freshwater fish from the catfish family. It is also known as manguruyú, jaú, catfish toad, yaú, tightr, robal, maiden, surubí. It is found in the basins of the great rivers of South America. They are basically piscivores, of sizes sometimes greater than 2 meters and there are 2 species. In Peru there is a town with that name near Huánuco. It is also the name of a Siberian ethnic group of Mongolian origin, which was part of the Oirate Peoples. It was also called dzúngaro,júngaro, choro u olot. They were nomads, Buddhists. Relative to or from Zungaria. It is the name of a central region of Asia, between Kazakhstan and China. It was also the name of a Kanato in that region.