1776: Spain created one large colony from its southeastern territories in South America, calling it the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata or Viceroyalty of La Plata. It included Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and parts of Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile. Buenos Aires was the capital of the viceroyalty.
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Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, the final of the four viceroyalties that Spain created during its colonization of Central and South America.
It originally comprised rebellious territories of the former Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata dependencies and had Buenos Aires as its capital.
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(1776-1814) Viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire in America.