La Plata

La Plata (Inglis:The Silver) is the caipital ceety o the province o Buenos Aires, Argentinae, as well as o the partido o La Plata. The ceety wis planned tae serve as the caipital o the province efter the ceety o Buenos Aires wis declared as the federal district in 1880. Per the , the ceety proper haes a population o 740,369 an its metropolitan aurie haes 894,253 inhabitants.

La Plata wis offeecially foondit bi Governor Dardo Rocha on November 19, 1882 an its construction wis fully documentit in photographs bi Tomás Bradley Sutton. It wis referred tae as Eva Perón Ceety (Ciudad Eva Perón) atween 1952 an 1955.

Sport
The ceety is hame tae twa fitbaa teams that play in the first diveesion: Estudiantes de La Plata an Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata.

Sister ceeties
La Plata haes signed lang-lastin cooperative ties in the nature o twinnin, wi the follaein ceeties on the dates specified:

  Porto Alegre (Brazil) 1982
  Bologna (Italy) 1988-11-23
  Beersheba (Israel) 1989-04-18
  Zaragoza (Spain) 1990-10-12
  Asunción (Paraguay) 1993-02-20
  Concepción (Chile) 1993
  Louisville, (Unitit States) 1994
  Maldonado (Uruguay) 1994
  Montevideo (Uruguay) 1994   Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivie) 1994
  Sucre (Bolivie) 1994
  Anghiari (Italy) 1998-11-18
  Boulogne-sur-Mer (Fraunce) 2000-06-07
  Liverpool (Ingland) 2005
  Santa Ana de Coro (Venezuela) 2007
  Jiujiang (Cheenae) 2008
  Toluca (Mexico) 2010

References

Category:Caipitals o Argentine provinces

Category:Planned ceeties
Category:Populatit places in Buenos Aires Province
Category:Populatit places established in 1882
Category:Urban plannin in Argentinae