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La Plata La Plata
La Plata , city (1991 pop. 640,344), capital of Buenos Aires prov., E central Argentina, 5 mi (8.1 km) inland from Ensenada, its port on the Río de la Plata. La Plata's chief function is that of provincial capital, but industrial growth has been steady, and large quantities of processed food,... Read more
Rio de la Plata Rio de la Plata
Río de la Plata , estuary, c.170 mi (270 km) long, SE South America, formed by the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. Between Argentina and Uruguay, the estuary is c.120 mi (190 km) wide at its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean and decreases to c.20 mi (30 km) near its head. Focal point of the... Read more
pampero pampero
pampero, a violent squall, accompanied by heavy rain, thunder, and lightning. It blows up with great suddenness on the pampas of the Rio de la Plata plain and frequently drifts out to sea where it blows with the force of a hurricane (see tropical storm), the wind usually coming from the south-west.... Read more
Mariano Moreno Mariano Moreno
Moreno, Mariano (1778–1811) Argentine revolutionary. His study of the Enlightenment thinkers led him to challenge Spanish mercantilist policies in the Rio de la Plata region. In his Memorial of the Landowners, he argued for free trade in terms similar to those of Adam Smith. Although trade... Read more
Pedro de Mendoza Pedro de Mendoza
Pedro de Mendoza , b. 1501 or 1502, d. 1537, Spanish conquistador, first adelantado [civil and military governor] of Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina). After a military career in Europe, he received (1534) from Emperor Charles V a commission to conquer and colonize the Río de... Read more
Bernardino Rivadavia Bernardino Rivadavia
Bernardino Rivadavia Bernardino Rivadavia (1780-1845) was a leader in Argentina's efforts to secure independence and after the break with Spain introduced a vast body of reforms to provide a sound basis for the newly independent country. Bernardino Rivadavia was born a citizen of Spain's... Read more
River Plate River Plate
Plate, River (Río de la Plata), Argentina‐Uruguay Mar Dolce, Río de Solís The estuary of the Paraná and Uruguay Rivers discovered in 1516 by Juan Díaz de Solís, a Spanish navigator, who called it Mar Dolce ‘Sweet Sea’ before it was briefly named... Read more
alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (c.1490–c.1557) Spanish soldier. He pursued a military career, serving in Europe before joining Pánfilo de NARVÁEZ in an expedition to Florida in 1527. When it failed, he and three other survivors spent ten years trekking 6000 miles through the... Read more
Vicente Fidel Lopez Vicente Fidel Lopez
Vicente Fidel López , 1815-1903, Argentine historian, journalist, and politician; son of Vicente López y Planes . A member of the group that opposed the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas, he sought refuge in Chile (1840-52), where he founded a political review and aided the... Read more
Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner , 1953-, Argentinian politician. A Peronist student activist in the 1970s, she received (1979) a law degree from the National Univ. of La Plata. There she met Néstor Kirchner , whom she married in 1975 and who, after a varied political career,... Read more

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