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2]: Length: 290 km (180 mi) [3] 4,876 km (3,030 mi) including the Paraná: Basin size: 3,170,000 km 2 (1,220,000 sq mi) [4] 3,182,064 km 2 (1,228,602 sq mi) [5]: Discharge: : • location: Río de la Plata, Atlantic Ocean: • average: (Period 1971-2010) . 27,225 m 3 /s (961,400 cu ft/s) [5] 22,000 m 3 /s (780,000 cu ft/s) [3]. 884 km 3 /a (28,000 m 3 /s) [6]: • minimum: 12,000 m 3 /s ...
The La Plata River (Spanish: Río de la Plata) is the longest river in Puerto Rico. It is located in the north coast of the island. [1] It flows from south to north, and drains into the Atlantic Ocean about 11 miles (18 km) west of San Juan. The mouth of the river is a resort area with white sandy beaches. [2] [3]
The La Plata basin is bounded by the Brazilian Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, and Patagonia to the south. The watershed extends mostly northward from the source of the Río de la Plata for roughly 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), as far as Brasília and Cuiabá in Brazil and Sucre in Bolivia, spanning latitudes between 14 and 37 degrees south and longitudes between 43 and ...
The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica), was a name adopted in 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán for the region of South America that declared independence in 1816, with the Sovereign Congress taking place in 1813, during the Argentine War of ...
It carries 160 million tonnes of suspended sediment (about half of it coming from the Bermejo River through the Paraguay River) and advances from 50 to 90 metres (160 to 300 ft) (depending on the source) per year over the Río de la Plata. [1] It is the world's only river delta that is in contact not with the sea but with another river.
Samborombón Bay is located at the mouth of the Río de la Plata, stretching from Punta Piedras in the north to Punta Rasa in the south, where Cape San Antonio begins. [4] [8] Depending on the boundaries used, the bay can be considered an estuary stretch of the Río de la Plata or a large bay of the Argentine Sea; the International Hydrographic Organization defines the eastern boundary of the ...
Map showing the Río de la Plata drainage basin and major tributaries. This is a list of tributaries of the Río de la Plata, or rivers of the La Plata Basin.Tributaries and sub-tributaries are hierarchically listed in order from the mouth of the Río de la Plata upriver.
The Paraguay River is the second major river of the Rio de la Plata Basin, after the Paraná River. The Paraguay's drainage basin, about 1,095,000 square kilometres (423,000 sq mi), [4] covers a vast area that includes major portions of Argentina, southern Brazil, parts of Bolivia, and most of the country of Paraguay.