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La Plata
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What does La Plata mean?
proper noun
- The capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina, briefly named Eva Perón in the 1950s.
- A town and municipality of Huila Department, Colombia.
- A town, the county seat of Charles County, Maryland, United States.
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proper noun
- A small city in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
- A ghost town in Cache County, Utah, United States.
- A river in Colorado, United States; in full, the La Plata River.
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We met with nothing remarkable until we were in the latitude of the river La Plata.
While engaged in this work, the ill-fated La Plata, bound with cable from Messrs.
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In the "gran secos" of La Plata, the indigenous animals, such as the American deer, die by thousands, and suffer apparently as much as the cattle.
A roving and enterprising disposition leads these islanders, like the Biscayans and Catalonians, to the Philippines, to the Ladrone Islands, to America, and wherever there are Spanish settlements, from Chile and La Plata to New Mexico.
The inclination of the lower course of almost every known river bed has been considerably reduced within the historical period, and nothing but great volume of water, or exceptional rapidity of flow, now enables a few large streams like the Amazon, the La Plata, the Ganges, and, in a loss degree, the Mississippi, to carry their own deposits far enough out into deep water to prevent the formation of serious obstructions to navigation.