Mar del Plata

Mar del Plata is on the southwest coast of the Argentinian sea. It is the second most touristic city in the country after Buenos Aires. You can go to Mar del Plata by plane, by bus, by train or by car.
  • Type: City with 665,000 residents
  • Description: city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
  • Also known as: Mar de Plata

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mar del Plata Cathedral and Juan Carlos Castagnino Municipal Museum of Art.

Church
Photo: Ezarate, CC0.
The Cathedral Basilica of SS Peter and Cecilia is a Roman Catholic church building in Mar del Plata, . Built in Neogothic style, it is dedicated to St.

Museum
The is a museum of fine arts in Mar del Plata, . Its building, the Ortiz Basualdo Villa, is a National Monument of Argentina.

Casino
The is located in Mar del Plata, , and is one of the largest casinos in the country.

Mar del Plata

Latitude
-37.9976° or 37° 59′ 51″ south
Longitude
-57.5482° or 57° 32′ 54″ west
Population
665,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
MDQ
United Nations Location Code
AR MDQ
Open location code
48J42F22+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198402188
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3430863
Wiki­data ID
Q52607
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Mar del Plata” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Mar del Plata
  • Amharic: ማር ዴል ፕላታ
  • Arabic: مار دل بلاتا
  • Arabic: مار ديل بلاتا
  • Arabic: ماريه ديل بلاتا
  • Armenian: Մար դել Պլատա
  • Armenian: Մար-դել-Պլատա
  • Asturian: Mar del Plata
  • Aymara: Mar del Plata
  • Azerbaijani: Mar del Plata
  • Balinese: Mar del Plata
  • Basque: Mar del Plata
  • Belarusian: Мар-дэль-Плата
  • Belarusian: Мар-дэль-Плята
  • Bengali: মার ডেল প্লাটা
  • Bengali: মার দেল প্লাতা
  • Breton: Mar del Plata
  • Bulgarian: Мар дел Плата
  • Catalan: Mar del Plata
  • Cebuano: Mar del Plata
  • Chinese: 馬德普拉塔
  • Chinese: 马德普拉塔
  • Czech: Mar del Plata
  • Danish: Mar del Plata
  • Dutch: Mar del Plata
  • Egyptian Arabic: مار ديل پلاتا
  • Esperanto: Mar del Plata
  • Estonian: Mar del Plata
  • Finnish: Mar del Plata
  • French: Mar del Plata
  • Galician: Mar del Plata
  • Georgian: მარ-დელ-პლატა
  • German: Mar del Plata
  • Greek: Μαρ ντελ Πλάτα
  • Gujarati: માર ડેલ પ્લાટા
  • Hausa: Mar del Plata
  • Hebrew: מאר דל פלאטה
  • Hindi: मार डेल प्लाटा
  • Hindi: मार दिल प्लाटा
  • Hungarian: Mar del Plata
  • Ido: Mar del Plata
  • Indonesian: Mar del Plata
  • Interlingua: Mar del Plata
  • Irish: Mar del Plata
  • Italian: Mar del Plata
  • Japanese: マル・デル・プラタ
  • Javanese: Mar del Plata
  • Kannada: ಮಾರ್ ಡೆಲ್ ಪ್ಲಾಟಾ
  • Kazakh: Мар дель Плата
  • Kirghiz: Мар дель Плата
  • Korean: 마르델플라타
  • Ladino: Mar del Plata
  • Latvian: Mara del Plata
  • Ligurian: Mar del Plata
  • Lithuanian: Mar del Plata
  • Luxembourgish: Mar del Plata
  • Malagasy: Mar del Plata
  • Malay: Mar del Plata
  • Maltese: Mar del Plata
  • Marathi: मार डेल प्लाटा
  • Moksha: Мар дэл Плата
  • Northern Frisian: Mar del Plata
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mar del Plata
  • Norwegian: Mar del Plata
  • Occitan (post 1500): Mar del Plata
  • Oromo: Mar del Plata
  • Ossetian: Мар-дель-Платæ
  • Panjabi: ਮਾਰ ਡੇਲ ਪਲਾਟਾ
  • Persian: مار دل پلاتا
  • Polish: Mar del Plata
  • Portuguese: Mar del Plata
  • Pushto: مار ډل پلاتا
  • Quechua: Mar del Plata
  • Romanian: Mar del Plata
  • Russian: Мар-дель-Плата
  • Scots: Mar del Plata
  • Serbian: Мар дел Плата
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mar del Plata
  • Silesian: Mar del Plata
  • Sinhala: මාර් ඩෙල් ප්ලටා
  • Slovak: Mar del Plata
  • Slovenian: Mar del Plata
  • Somali: Mar del Plata
  • South Azerbaijani: مار دل پلاتا
  • Spanish: Mar del Plata
  • Spanish: Mardel
  • Spanish: MDQ
  • Swahili: Mar del Plata
  • Swedish: Mar del Plata (kommunhuvudort i Argentina)
  • Swedish: Mar del Plata
  • Tajik: Мар дель Плата
  • Tamil: மார் டெல் பிளாட்டா
  • Tatar: Мар дель Плата
  • Tatar: Мар-дел-Плата
  • Telugu: మార్ డెల్ ప్లాటా
  • Thai: มาร์เดลปลาตา
  • Turkish: Mar del Plata
  • Ukrainian: Мар-дель-Плата
  • Urdu: مار دیل پلاتا
  • Urdu: مار ڈیل پلاٹا
  • Urdu: مر ڈیل پلاتا
  • Uzbek: Mar-del-plata
  • Uzbek: Mar-Del-Plata
  • Venetian: Mar del Plata
  • Veps: Mar Del Plat
  • Veps: Mar Del‘ Plat
  • Veps: Mar Del’ Plat
  • Vietnamese: Mar del Plata
  • Volapük: Mar del Plata
  • Waray (Philippines): Mar del Plata
  • Welsh: Mar del Plata
  • Wu Chinese: 马德普拉塔
  • Mar del Plata

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