Río de la Plata
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The Río de la Plata, 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 Atl
NASA photo of the Río de la Plata looking from northwest to southeast. Buenos Aires is visible on the right bank near the Paraná River delta. River sediments turn its water brown as far as Montevideo, visible on the left bank at the outer estuary.
Río de la Plata in Argentina
Satellite image of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers emptying into the Río de la Plata. Due to the relatively calm surface of the estuary and the angle of the Sun relative to the satellite, the current of the river flowing out into the Atlantic is visible.
Discovery of the Río de la Plata by Juan Díaz de Solís. He would be attacked and killed by Charrúas later.
Samborombón Bay
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Samborombón Bay is a bay on the coast of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Located at the Río de la Plata's mouth on the Argentine Sea, it begins about 160 kilometres southeast of Buenos Aires and is
Visible as a C-shaped indentation in the coast near the southern end of the Río de la Plata estuary