Name of a town and municipality in the Huila Department, Colombia. Name of a city in Argentina . Name of a South American river and estuary, between Uruguay and Argentina, it is formed by the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. Name of an asteroid (1029). It is also designated 1924 RK by astronomers.
1º_ 'La Plata' is the name of the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). It was designed in the nineteenth century based on fifteenth-century criteria, with strong Masonic influence; And it is one of the few cities built ad hoc to be a capital. It is also the name of the La Plata Partido (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina), a municipality in the Huila Department (Colombia), a locality in Zulia (Venezuela), two cities (one in Maryland and one in Missouri) plus a county in Colorado, the latter in the USA. 2º_ The Argentine city has given name to different streets, educational, sports, cultural institutions and even an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter discovered from the Astronomical Observatory of La Plata.
