Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 702
Land area (2000): 1.219042 sq. miles (3.157304 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.219042 sq. miles (3.157304 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40682
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.024013 N, 92.492279 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63549
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
La Plata
Housing Units (2000): 2308
Land area (2000): 6.949048 sq. miles (17.997950 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.949048 sq. miles (17.997950 sq. km)
FIPS code: 45750
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 38.534258 N, 76.973377 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20646
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
La Plata
Housing Units (2000): 20765
Land area (2000): 1692.150459 sq. miles (4382.649384 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.778244 sq. miles (20.145559 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1699.928703 sq. miles (4402.794943 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 37.264973 N, 107.798209 W
Headwords:
La Plata, CO
La Plata County
La Plata County, CO
Wikipedia
La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of the partido La Plata. According to the , it has a population of 765,378 and its metropolitan area has 899,523 inhabitants.
La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880. It was officially founded by Governor Dardo Rocha on 19 November 1882. Its construction is fully documented in photographs by Tomás Bradley Sutton. La Plata was renamed Eva Perón City (Ciudad Eva Perón) between 1952 and 1955.
The city is home to two important first division football teams: Estudiantes de La Plata and Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata.
La Plata ( Spanish for "the silver") can refer to:
La Plata is a station of the Seville Metro on the line 1. It is located at the intersection of Los Gavilanes Av. and Virgen de la Saleta St., in the neighborhood of Parque Amate. La Plata is an underground station, located between Amate and Cocheras on the same line. It was opened on 2 April 2009.
Usage examples of "la plata".
I kept to the trees, avoiding the trail, and at noontime I watered in the La Plata River a few miles below the town.
La luz, reflejada en la plata, el oro y las alhajas produjo infinitos destellos.
He had put off doing so, however, because of his sure and certain knowledge that once he was apprised of the problem, the Chief of the Bureau of Internal Security of the Ministry of National Defense would rise from his desk, lock his hands behind his back, stare for a moment out his window at the Rio de la Plata, and then turn around and order him to do what he thought should be done under the circumstances.
He'd have to go back across the La Plata to get over to Cherry Creek and the Rossiter place, and there was a good chance he'd left his horse over there, safely out of the way.
Yet no trouble came to us, and we rode easy in our saddles, the wind cool and pleasant in our faces, winding around and doubling back, the wild waters of the La Plata tumbling over the rocks or slowing down where the canyon widened out.
However, some historians believe she escaped the war intact and was scuttled by her crew in the Rio de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay near the site where the Graf Spee was blown up, but nothing has ever been proven.