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La Plata
[ lah plah-tah ]
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They bound themselves by a treaty to secure the free navigation of all rivers flowing into the La Plata.
La Plata has raised the standard of independence, and thinks itself sufficiently strong to obtain a government of its own.
Name, &c.—This country received its name, at first, from the name of its great river La Plata.
In 1778, it was erected into a Spanish vice-royalty by the name of the vice-royalty of Rio de la Plata.
It was he had christened the great stream—Rio de la Plata, the river where silver is.
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