The Río de la Plata begins at the confluence of the Uruguay and Paraná rivers at Punta Gorda and flows eastward into the South Atlantic Ocean. No clear physical boundary… See more

The historical English name "River Plate" uses an obsolete sense of the word "plate", which was used extensively as a term for "silver" or "gold" from the 12th century onwards, … See more

• Rioplatense Spanish
• Argentina–Uruguay relations
• 1973 Boundary Treaty between Uruguay and Argentina See more

The Río de la Plata behaves as an estuary in which freshwater and seawater mix. The freshwater comes principally from the Paraná River … See more

Indigenous people
Nomadic aboriginal people inhabited the Río de la Plata region for thousands of years before European settlers arrived, and their … See more

The Río de la Plata is a habitat for the loggerhead sea turtle, green sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, the rare La Plata dolphin, and… See more

• Mulhall, Michael George, and; Mulhall, Edward T. (1869). "Handbook of the River Plate: Comprising Buenos Ayres, the Upper Provinces, Banda Oriental, Paraguay" See more