South America
Uruguay

Plata River

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 at Punta Gorda.
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  • Type: Estuary
  • Description: estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River on the border between Argentina and Uruguay
  • Also known as: “La Plata River”, “Plata”, “Río de la Plata”, and “River Plate”

Plata River

Latitude
-34.88306° or 34° 52′ 59″ south
Longitude
-56.71361° or 56° 42′ 49″ west
Open location code
48Q5478P+QH
Geo­Names ID
3441069
Wiki­data ID
Q35827
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Plata River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Río de la Plata”
  • Albanian: “La Plata”
  • Albanian: “Lumi La Plata”
  • Arabic: “ريو دي لا بلاتا”
  • Arabic: “ريو ديل لا بلاتا”
  • Arabic: “نهر بلاتا”
  • Arabic: “نهر بليت”
  • Armenian: “Լա Պլատա”
  • Asturian: “Ríu de la Plata”
  • Asturian: “Ríu de La Plata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rio-de-La-Plata”
  • Basque: “Rio de la Plata”
  • Basque: “Río de la Plata”
  • Bavarian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Belarusian: “Ля Плята”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Плята”
  • Belarusian: “Эстуарый Ла-Плата”
  • Bengali: “রিও দে লা প্লাতা”
  • Bhojpuri: “रियो डी ला प्लाटा”
  • Bosnian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Breton: “Río de la Plata”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Плата”
  • Catalan: “Riu de la Plata”
  • Cebuano: “Río de la Plata”
  • Chinese: “La Plata Hô”
  • Chinese: “拉布拉他河”
  • Chinese: “拉普拉塔河”
  • Croatian: “La Plata”
  • Croatian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Czech: “La Plata”
  • Czech: “Río de la Plata”
  • Czech: “ústí La Plata”
  • Danish: “Río de la Plata”
  • Dutch: “Río de la Plata”
  • Esperanto: “Plata-Rivero”
  • Estonian: “La Plata laht”
  • Extremaduran: “Riu la Prata”
  • Finnish: “Hopeajoki”
  • Finnish: “Río de la Plata”
  • French: “Rio de la Plata”
  • French: “río de la Plata”
  • French: “Río de la Plata”
  • Galician: “Río da Prata”
  • Georgian: “რიო-დე-ლა-პლატა”
  • German: “Río de la Plata”
  • Greek: “Ρίο ντε λα Πλάτα”
  • Guarani: “La Plata”
  • Hebrew: “ריו דה לה פלטה”
  • Hindi: “रिओ दे ला प्लाता”
  • Hindi: “रियो डि ला प्लाटा”
  • Hungarian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Ido: “Fluvio Plata”
  • Indonesian: “Rio de la Plata”
  • Italian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Italian: “Rio della Plata”
  • Japanese: “ラプラタ川”
  • Kazakh: “Ла-плата шығанағы”
  • Kirghiz: “Ла-Плата булуңу”
  • Korean: “라플라타강”
  • Latin: “Flumen Argenteum”
  • Latin: “Fluvius Argenteus”
  • Latvian: “Laplata”
  • Ligurian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio de Plata”
  • Lithuanian: “La Plata”
  • Macedonian: “Рио де ла Плата”
  • Malagasy: “Río de la Plata”
  • Malay: “Sungai Plata”
  • Malayalam: “റിയോ ഗ്രാന്റെ”
  • Malayalam: “റിയോ ഡി ലാ പ്ലാറ്റ”
  • Malayalam: “റിവർ പ്ലേറ്റ്”
  • Marathi: “रियो दे ला प्लाता”
  • Mazanderani: “ریو د لا پلاتا”
  • Mazanderani: “ریودولاپلاتا دریامونا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Plata Hô”
  • Northern Frisian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Río de la Plata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Río de la Plata”
  • Norwegian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arriu de la Plata”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Платæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਲਾਤਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Río de la Plata”
  • Persian: “ریو دلا پلاتا”
  • Polish: “La Plata”
  • Polish: “Río de la Plata”
  • Portuguese: “Rio da Prata”
  • Romanian: “Río de la Plata”
  • Russian: “Ла-Плата (река)”
  • Russian: “Ла-Плата (эстуарий)”
  • Russian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Scots: “Río de la Plata”
  • Serbian: “Рио де ла Плата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Plata”
  • Slovak: “La Plata”
  • Slovenian: “Río de la Plata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ریو دلا پلاتا چایی”
  • Spanish: “El Plata”
  • Spanish: “Río de la Plata”
  • Swahili: “Rio de la Plata”
  • Swedish: “Río de la Plata”
  • Tagalog: “Rio de la Plata”
  • Thai: “ริโอเดลาปลาตา”
  • Turkish: “Río de la Plata”
  • Uighur: “لاپلاتا دەرياسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Urdu: “ریو دے لا پلاتا”
  • Uzbek: “La-Plata”
  • Venetian: “Rio de ła Plata”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông La Plata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Río de la Plata”
  • Welsh: “Río de la Plata”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉普拉塔河”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉布拉他河”
  • “रियो डी ला प्लाटा”

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