La Plata

[lah plah-tah]

noun

1. a seaport in eastern Argentina.

2. Río de la Plata.

La Plata

/ la ˈplata /

noun

1. a port in E Argentina, near the Río de la Plata estuary: founded in 1882 and modelled on Washington DC; university (1897). Pop: 758 000 (2005 est)

2. See (Río de la) Plata

Example Sentences

The visitors were not hampered by the late adjustment though, and picked up where they left off in La Plata with a renewed fluidity in attack.

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For two years, he lived and worked in La Plata, an hour’s drive from Buenos Aires.

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Its main city is La Plata, which has a metropolitan area with nearly one million inhabitants.

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Backward speaking is not confined to the La Plata River area.

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"We need resounding change. We must remove all the people who have left this country destroyed," said Rosalia Garcia, 51, a public accountant at Milei's rally in La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province.

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