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The La Plata River (Spanish: Río de la Plata) is the longest river in Puerto Rico. It is located in the north coast of the island. [1] It flows from south to north, and drains into the Atlantic Ocean about 11 miles (18 km) west of San Juan. The mouth of the river is a resort area with white sandy beaches. [2] [3]
Though it is generally spoken of as a river, the Río de la Plata is considered by some geographers to be a large bay or marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] For those who regard it as a river, it is the widest in the world, with a maximum width of about 220 kilometres (140 mi) and a total surface area of about 35,000 square ...
Pages in category "Río de la Plata" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In 1971, Don Rawitsch, a history major and senior at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, taught an 8th-grade history class at Jordan Junior High School in Minneapolis as a student teacher. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His supervising teacher assigned him to prepare a unit on "The Western Expansion of the Mid-19th Century", and Rawitsch decided to ...
Map showing the Río de la Plata drainage basin and major tributaries. This is a list of tributaries of the Río de la Plata, or rivers of the La Plata Basin.Tributaries and sub-tributaries are hierarchically listed in order from the mouth of the Río de la Plata upriver.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [1] The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in ...
8 August 1776 Part of Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata (see Argentina). 16 July 1809 – November 1809 Independent state proclaimed in Upper Peru nominally in the name of the Bourbon king Ferdinand VII of Spain, who had been deposed by Napoleon. 1811 – 1816 Proclaimed a province of Río de la Plata (see Argentina). 1816 Re-incorporated into Peru.
The Governorate of the Río de la Plata (1549−1776) (Spanish: Gobernación del Río de la Plata, pronounced [ɡoβeɾnaˈsjon del ˈri.o ðe la ˈplata]) was one of the governorates of the Spanish Empire. It was created in 1549 by Spain in the area around the Río de la Plata.