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La pelota era un barco improvisado de cuero utilizado en América del Sur y Central para cruzar ríos. Era similar en algunos aspectos al bull boat (bote de cuero) de América del Norte o al coracle de las Islas Británicas, pero a menudo no tenía armazón de madera ni estructura de soporte interna, y dependía enteramente de la rigidez del cuero para mantenerlo a flote. Por lo tanto, podía transportarse a caballo y montarse rápidamente en caso de emergencia, y era una habilidad rural común. El barco era remolcado por un animal o un nadador humano, siendo las mujeres consideradas especialmente diestras. Las pelotas podían transportar cargas sustanciales (lo común era alrededor de un cuarto de tonelada) e incluso pequeñas piezas de artillería. Continuaron utilizándose hasta bien entrado el siglo XX.

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1. "Paraguayan War" is the preferred usage in the English language, certainly in serious scholarly writing.

The JSTOR library is a database of nearly all recent high-quality scholarly articles in the English language. The facts speak for themselves:

Articles in JSTOR database that mention the phrase:
	"paraguayan war"	"war of the triple alliance"	"triple alliance war"
in title	49	7	2
anywhere in article	1,069	450	2

(Source: JSTOR, interrogation of search engine provided, 29 April 2024, all articles.)

The larger (albeit lower quality) Google Scholar database paints a broadly similar picture:

Google Scholar hits
"paraguayan war"	"war of the triple alliance"	"triple alliance war"
3,880	2,610	814

Likewise, there are clearly more books with "Paraguayan War" in the title, than "War of the Triple Alliance. (Source: Google Books, interrogate intitle:field.)

2. The 1864-1870 war is little known outside South America.^[1] By itself, the title "War of the Triple Alliance" doesn't tell the international reader anything. Which triple alliance? There have been quite a few in human history. To suppose "Triple Alliance", without context, must mean the South American one, is parochial. "Paraguayan War" at least points the reader to the right continent.

3. The title "War of the Triple Alliance" was increasingly hijacked by the revisionists of the 1970s, with their conspiracy theories of an invisible plot to "get" Paraguay. But it was the war that caused the triple alliance — eventually — not the other way round. The war actually began and developed in 1864, between Paraguay and Brazil alone; there was no triple alliance then, just a Paraguayan army sacking the Mato Grosso's capital. Not until after Argentina's province of Corrientes was invaded in April 1865 did Argentina make an alliance with Brazil - its traditional enemy.^[2]^{: 260, 358}

^ *Whigham, Thomas L.; Kraay, Hendrik (2004). "Introduction: War, Politics and Society in South America". In Kraay, Hendrik; Whigham, Thomas L. (eds.). I Die with my Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska. ISBN 0-8032-2762-0., p.1
^ Whigham, Thomas L. (2018). The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct (2nd ed.). University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-994-2.

[1] *Whigham, Thomas L.; Kraay, Hendrik (2004). "Introduction: War, Politics and Society in South America". In Kraay, Hendrik; Whigham, Thomas L. (eds.). I Die with my Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska. ISBN 0-8032-2762-0., p.1

[2] Whigham, Thomas L. (2018). The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct (2nd ed.). University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-994-2.

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