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La Plata is a city in Argentina, the administrative center of the province of Buenos Aires. Located on the shore of the estuary of La Plata.

History of the city
After giving Buenos Aires the status of a Federal District in 1880, it was decided to move the center of the province to the city of La Plata, specially built for this purpose. These lands were known as the "Hills of the Bay" (Spanish: Las Lomas de la Ensenada or Spanish: Lomas de Ensenada). The territory was located on the way from the southeastern city of Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires to the northwest, along the Atlantic coast and the shores of the La Plata estuary. The date of November 19, 1882, when the Governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Dardo Rocha, laid the first stone in the construction of the new city, is considered to be the moment of the foundation of La Plata.

According to Rocha's decision, all provincial administrative institutions, as well as the university, were to be located in the city. City architect Pedro Benoit has developed a plan based on a rationalistic approach to the construction of urban centers. The city has the shape of a square with a central square (central park is located on it) and two diagonal avenues (main streets) stretching from north to south and from east to west. The parts of the city themselves duplicate each other on the principle of a fractal, and these parts are small blocks 6 by 6, elongated in length. In addition to diagonal avenues, the streets intersecting them at right angles form a kind of grid. Thus, La Plata received the nickname "la ciudad de las diagonales" ("city of diagonals"). Another name of the city is "la ciudad de los tilos" ("city of lime trees") — because of the large number of plantings of these trees along the streets.

In 1884, electric street lighting appeared in the city, and this was the first case of electric lighting in all of Latin America.

In 1952, the city was renamed Eva Peron, in honor of the national heroine of Argentina, but the former name was returned in 1955.

Culture and science

National University of La Plata
The streets and houses of the city are made in strict Masonic symbolism, since both Rocha and Benoit were Masons.

Government provincial buildings were built in the conditions of international architectural competition. So, the Governor's Palace was built and stylized by the Italians, and the City Hall was built by the Germans. The Cathedral of La Plata is the largest church in Argentina. La Plata is also home to the only building in South America (the private house of the surgeon Curuchet), built by the architect Le Corbusier.

La Plata is home to one of the most important universities in Argentina, the National University of La Plata, founded in 1897 and became a state university in 1905. It is famous, first of all, for its observatory and museum. Ernesto Sabato graduated from the University (physics); before becoming a writer, he also taught at the Sorbonne and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his main specialty. The anthropologist and sociologist Nestor Garcia Canclini studied at the university and defended his doctoral thesis. Many other famous Spanish-speaking scientists, such as Dr. Rene Favaloro and the Dominican Pedro Henriques Urena, worked here.

Sport
The most important sport is, of course, football. Two teams of the highest Argentine division are based in the city - Estudiantes and Himnasia and Esgrima. The name of the first one — "Students" - reflects the importance of science for the city. Estudiantes became the champion of Argentina 4 times (plus one amateur title) and was one of the strongest clubs in the world in the late 1960s, when they won the Libertadores Cup three times in a row and the Intercontinental Cup once, beating English Manchester United. Estudiantes won the last title of national champions at the moment in December 2010.

"Himnasia and Esgrima" (that is, "Gymnastics and Fencing") has won the amateur national championship only once, but in recent years it has also demonstrated stable and high results, in particular, in 2007, "Himnasia" was a participant in the Libertadores Cup. At the beginning of the XXI century, a single football arena was built in the city for both clubs, the Ciudad de La Plata stadium.

Population, language, religion
As of 2010, 643 thousand people lived in the city[3]. The majority of the population are Spanish-speaking Argentines who profess Catholicism.

Natural conditions

Climatogram of La Plata
La Plata usually has a warm and humid climate. The average annual temperature is 16.3 C°. There are usually 126 clear days in a year, the average annual precipitation is 1023 mm. The average humidity is 78%.

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