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The observatory in the 1920s. La Plata was a planned city, intended as the capital of the province after the city of Buenos Aires became the Argentina's Federal Capital. The observatory was the result of the 1872 establishment of the National Meteorological Bureau, enacted by President Domingo Sarmiento on an initiative by U.S. astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould (who lived in Argentina between ...
La Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈplata]) is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina.According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabitants. [2]
The La Plata basin is bounded by the Brazilian Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, and Patagonia to the south. The watershed extends mostly northward from the source of the Río de la Plata for roughly 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), as far as Brasília and Cuiabá in Brazil and Sucre in Bolivia, spanning latitudes between 14 and 37 degrees south and longitudes between 43 and ...
2]: Length: 290 km (180 mi) [3] 4,876 km (3,030 mi) including the Paraná: Basin size: 3,170,000 km 2 (1,220,000 sq mi) [4] 3,182,064 km 2 (1,228,602 sq mi) [5]: Discharge: : • location: Río de la Plata, Atlantic Ocean: • average: (Period 1971-2010) . 27,225 m 3 /s (961,400 cu ft/s) [5] 22,000 m 3 /s (780,000 cu ft/s) [3]. 884 km 3 /a (28,000 m 3 /s) [6]: • minimum: 12,000 m 3 /s ...
La Plata 6,857 Rufino de Elizalde: La Plata 6,428 Barrio El Carmen: La Plata 5,906 José Hernández: La Plata 5,333 Abasto: La Plata 4,577 Arturo Seguí: La Plata 3,894 Transradio: La Plata 3,713 Ángel Etcheverry: La Plata 2,671 Villa Parque Sicardi: La Plata
La Plata is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, some 60 kilometres (37 mi) southeast of the city of Buenos Aires. It has an area of 926 km 2 (358 sq mi), and a population of 654,324 (2010 census [ INDEC ] ).
La Plata, capital and largest city of Buenos Aires Province La Plata Partido, a district in Buenos Aires Province; Universidad Nacional de La Plata; La Plata Astronomical Observatory; Mar del Plata, 2nd largest city in Buenos Aires Province; United Provinces of the Río de la Plata; Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
The La Plata National University (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is a national public research university located in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has over 90,000 regular students, 10,000 teaching staff, 17 departments and 106 available degrees.