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La Plata Partido

La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of Province. This planned city is recognized for its layout, a perfect square with the "Historic Axis" preserved intact until today; and for the outstanding design of the diagonals that cross it forming rhombuses within its contour, forests and squares placed exactly every six blocks.
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  • Type: City with 800,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Buenos Aires province, Argentina
  • Also known as: “Eva Perón”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of La Plata and Curutchet House.

Scenic viewpoint
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The or the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in La Plata, , dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the 58th tallest church in the world.

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The , La Plata, , is a building by Le Corbusier. It was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948 and included a small medical office on the ground floor.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum in La Plata, . It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo of the National University of La Plata.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villa Elvira and Tolosa.

Town
is a district in , dependent of the La Plata city located in the of .

Town
is a town located in the of , . It is part of the Greater La Plata metropolitan area. is the birthplace of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Town
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is a town in , Buenos Aires, Argentina. belongs to the Greater La Plata urban conglomerate. Its name, refers to the several brick factories that were located in the area at the end of the 19th century, and which supplied the bricks for many of the buildings in the nascent city of La Plata.

La Plata

Latitude
-34.9207° or 34° 55′ 14″ south
Longitude
-57.9538° or 57° 57′ 14″ west
Population
800,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
IATA airport code
LPG
United Nations Location Code
AR LPG
Open location code
48Q432HW+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 247782633
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3432043
Wiki­data ID
Q44059
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“La Plata” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “La Plata”
  • Arabic: “لا بلاتا”
  • Arabic: “لابلاتا”
  • Aragonese: “La Plata”
  • Armenian: “Լա Պլատա”
  • Asturian: “La Plata”
  • Azerbaijani: “La Plata şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “La Plata”
  • Basque: “La Plata”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Плата (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Плята”
  • Bengali: “লা প্লাতা”
  • Breton: “La Plata”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Плата”
  • Catalan: “La Plata”
  • Cebuano: “La Plata (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “La Plata”
  • Chinese: “拉普拉塔”
  • Czech: “La Plata”
  • Danish: “La Plata”
  • Dutch: “La Plata”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لابلاتا”
  • Esperanto: “La Plata”
  • Estonian: “La Plata”
  • Extremaduran: “La Plata”
  • Finnish: “La Plata”
  • French: “La Plata”
  • Galician: “La Plata”
  • Georgian: “ლა-პლატა”
  • German: “La Plata”
  • Greek: “Λα Πλάτα”
  • Gujarati: “લા પ્લાટા”
  • Hebrew: “לה פלאטה”
  • Hindi: “ला प्लाटा”
  • Hungarian: “La Plata”
  • Icelandic: “La Plata”
  • Ido: “La Plata”
  • Indonesian: “La Plata, Buenos Aires”
  • Indonesian: “La Plata”
  • Irish: “La Plata”
  • Italian: “La Plata”
  • Japanese: “ラ・プラタ”
  • Japanese: “ラプラタ”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾ ಪ್ಲಾಟಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Ла-Плата шаары”
  • Korean: “라플라타”
  • Kotava: “La Plata”
  • Ladino: “La Plata”
  • Latin: “Urbs Platensis”
  • Latvian: “Laplata”
  • Ligurian: “La Plata”
  • Lithuanian: “La Plata”
  • Low German: “La Plata”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Plata”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Плата”
  • Malay: “La Plata”
  • Maltese: “La Plata”
  • Marathi: “ला प्लाता”
  • Northern Frisian: “La Plata”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Plata”
  • Norwegian: “La Plata”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Plata”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Платæ”
  • Persian: “لا پلاتا”
  • Persian: “لاپلاتا”
  • Piemontese: “La Plata”
  • Polish: “La Plata”
  • Portuguese: “La Plata”
  • Romanian: “La Plata”
  • Russian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Samogitian: “La Plata”
  • Sardinian: “La Plata”
  • Scots: “La Plata”
  • Serbian: “Ла Плата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Plata, Argentina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Plata”
  • Silesian: “La Plata (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “La Plata”
  • Sinhala: “ලා ප්ලාටා, ආර්ජන්ටිනාව”
  • Sinhala: “ලා ප්ලාටා”
  • Slovak: “La Plata”
  • Slovenian: “La Plata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لا پلاتا”
  • Spanish: “La Plata”
  • Swedish: “La Plata”
  • Tagalog: “La Plata”
  • Tamil: “லா பிளாடா”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Плата (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Плата”
  • Telugu: “ల ప్లాటా”
  • Tetum: “La Plata”
  • Thai: “ลาปลาตา”
  • Turkish: “La Plata”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Urdu: “لا پلاتا”
  • Uzbek: “La-Plata”
  • Venetian: “La Plata”
  • Veps: “La Plat”
  • Vietnamese: “La Plata”
  • Volapük: “La Plata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Plata”
  • Welsh: “La Plata”
  • Western Panjabi: “لا پلاتا”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉普拉塔”
  • Yiddish: “לא פלאטא”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉普拉塔”
  • Zhuang: “La Plata”
  • “La Plata”

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