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' River of Silver '), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and forms a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America .
The Río de la Plata basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Plata, Portuguese: Bacia do Prata), more often called the River Plate basin in scholarly writings, [1] sometimes called the Platine basin [2] or Platine region, [3] is the 3,170,000-square-kilometre (1,220,000 sq mi) [4] hydrographical area in South America that drains to the Río de la Plata.
The terrestrial ecoregion to the north is the Uruguayan savanna, to the south is the Humid Pampas; on the west upstream of the estuary is the Paraná flooded savanna. [6] [7] The major rivers feeding the Rio de la Plata are the Paraná River and the Uruguay River, with annual average discharges of 16,000 and 6,000 m2/s, respectively. The bay ...
The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica), was a name adopted in 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán for the region of South America that declared independence in 1816, with the Sovereign Congress taking place in 1813, during the Argentine War of ...
The British Invasion of the River Plate 1806–1807 : How the Redcoats Were Humbled and a Nation Was Born. South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Book Ltd. ISBN 978-178-159-066-9. Fletcher, Ian (2006). The Waters of Oblivion: The British Invasion of the Rio de la Plata, 1806–1807. Staplehurst, Kent, UK: Spellmount. ISBN 186-227-342-1.
The Gran Chaco — a geographic, cultural, and ecological region of the La Plata River Basin, in South America. Located in areas of northern Argentina , Bolivia , western Brazil , and Paraguay . Subcategories
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Tributary river [13] 8 South America: Río de la Plata: 27,225 290 180 ... South America: Río de la Plata: La Plata Estuary: 27,225 12,000 50,000 Atlantic Ocean [14] 7