La Plata
La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires 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.Photo: Tincho GELP, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Arturblas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Cathedral of La Plata
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The Cathedral of La Plata in La Plata, Argentina, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the 58th tallest church in the world.
Curutchet House
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The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier.
La Plata Museum
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The La Plata Museum is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina.
Localities in the Area
Villa Elvira
Villa Elvira is a district in Argentina, dependent of the La Plata city located in the La Plata Partido of Buenos Aires Province.Tolosa
Tolosa is a town located in the La Plata Partido of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.Los Hornos
Photo: Valenbancherx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Los Hornos is a town in La Plata Partido, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
La Plata
- Type: City with 800,000 residents
- Description: capital of the Buenos Aires province, Argentina
- Categories: argentine city, big city, capital city and locality
- Location: La Plata Partido, Buenos Aires, Pampas, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-34.9207° or 34° 55' 14" southLongitude
-57.9538° or 57° 57' 14" westPopulation
800,000Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)IATA airport code
LPGUnited Nations Location Code
AR LPGOpen Location Code
48Q432HW+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 247782633OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3432043Wikidata ID
Q44059La Plata Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: La Plata
- Arabic: La Plata
- Arabic: لابلاتا
- Aragonese: La Plata
- Armenian: Լա Պլատա
- Asturian: La Plata
- Avaric: La Plata
- Azerbaijani: La Plata
- Azerbaijani: La Plata şəhəri
- 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
- 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
- Marathi: ला प्लाता
- Northern Frisian: La Plata
- Norwegian: La Plata
- Norwegian Bokmål: 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
- Silesian: La Plata (mjasto)
- Silesian: La Plata
- 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
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Other Places Named La Plata
In the Area
- Barrio El MondongoNeighbourhood
- Barrio HipódromoNeighbourhood
- GambierSuburb
- Villa ArgüelloSuburb
- Barrio El DiqueNeighbourhood
- Altos de San LorenzoTown
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