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

They bound themselves by a treaty to secure the free navigation of all rivers flowing into the La Plata.

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La Plata has raised the standard of independence, and thinks itself sufficiently strong to obtain a government of its own.

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Name, &c.—This country received its name, at first, from the name of its great river La Plata.

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In 1778, it was erected into a Spanish vice-royalty by the name of the vice-royalty of Rio de la Plata.

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It was he had christened the great stream—Rio de la Plata, the river where silver is.

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