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Paraguay, or the Province of the Rio de la Plata, with the Adjacent Regions Tucamen and Santa Cruz de la Sierra is a map from 1616 depicting the area "An Account of a Voyage up the River de la Plata, and Thence over Land to Peru: With Observations on the Inhabitants, as Well as Indians and Spaniards, the Cities, Commerce, Fertility, and Riches ...
Nuevo mapa del virreinato del rio de la plata.PNG: Author: Nuevo mapa del virreinato del rio de la plata.PNG: Franco-eisenhower. Coast, Rivers, modern borders, sea: Natural Earth (EPSG 102032) derivative work: rowanwindwhistler ; SVG development
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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]
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 ...
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 ...
It carries 160 million tonnes of suspended sediment (about half of it coming from the Bermejo River through the Paraguay River) and advances from 50 to 90 metres (160 to 300 ft) (depending on the source) per year over the Río de la Plata. [1] It is the world's only river delta that is in contact not with the sea but with another river.
Map of the Rio de la Plata Basin, showing the Bermejo River joining the Paraguay River north of Resistencia. The Bermejo River at Presidencia Roca in the Argentine Gran Chaco The Bermejo seen from Puente Lavalle upstream. The Bermejo River (Spanish, Río Bermejo [1]) is a river in South America that flows from Bolivia to the Paraguay River in ...