La Plata, a new city, founded in 1884 as capital of the prov. of Buenos Ayres, 30 m. SE. of Buenos Ayres city; rapidly built, it has continued to grow, and has now some handsome buildings, a college, and cotton and woollen manufactures; a canal connects it with the La Plata River.
Population (circa 1900) given as 65,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lapland * La Plata River