La Plata, Argentina is the capital city of Buenos Aires located on the eastern side of Argentina. The city of La Plata includes a river called Río de la Plata or the River of Silver. The Río de la Plata empties into the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern South America. In the city of La Plata, pollution is an environmental hazard. Pollutions can effect the environment in many ways like harming animals and plants, increasing temperatures, and lung cancer. La Plata, Argentina is experiencing many environmental
Uruguay, also known as the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in the southeastern locale, or region of South America. Argentina borders Uruguay on the west, and Brazilto borders its east and north. The "Río de la Plata" is on the south and the Atlantic Ocean is to the southeast of Uruguay. “Urugay has a population of 3.3 million people and is first in South America concerning crush adaptability, size of the desk class and flourishing, headway and base, perceiving the innovative methodology
Atlantic Ocean and the Río de la Plata, and on the west by Argentina. The Uruguay River forms Uruguay's western boundary in full. Uruguay's land mass in whole is a small 176,215 sq km. Uruguay's capital city is Montevideo which is the main port, and economic center of the country. The currency of Uruguay is the peso uruguayos (7.97 peso uruguayos equal U.S.$1). This country's main sport entertainment is soccer. In 1516 Uruguay was discovered by the Spanish explorer Juan Díaz de Solís. He was killed
first. The capital and largest city is Buenos Aires. Argentina has a lot of mountains, upland areas, and plains. The western boundaries of the country fall entirely within the Andes. The only other highlands of consequence in Argentina is the Sierra de Córdoba, in the central portion of the country. In the north, the Argentine plains consist of the southern portion of the South American region known as the Gran Chaco. The Pampas plains that include the most productive agricultural sections of the
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Federico García Lorca’s poem “La casada infiel” depicts the story of a gypsy who makes love to a married woman on the shore of a river. When looking deeper into the poem, Lorca appears to provide a critical observation on the values of the conservative society at the time in which he lived. The woman, at her most basic reading, is treated as an object, elaborating on the sexist values in society at the time. Lorca addresses issues of sexism as well as issues of sexuality within society mainly through
It all started on the 9th of March 1454 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy (Rosenberg, Matt. "Amerigo Vespucci."). His parents, Ser Nastagio and Lisabetta Mini Vespucci knew Amerigo’s passion for astronomy that helped him a lot during his exploration. He did not know that he would be the great man he is still considered 500 years later. Amerigo Vespucci got a lot of rewards throughout his life, and was very well treated by the countries he navigated for. He won a few titles, and was remembered well after
Federico Guillermo Enrique Alejandro de Humboldt, conocido como Alexander von Humboldt, fue un Alemán que ha marcado hasta la actualidad varios aspectos de la ciencia moderna. A continuación, explicare brevemente su biografía antes de llegar al destino previamente invadido por España: México, el cual se llamaba “Nueva España” en ese entonces. Tiene una educación con profesores privados bastante amplia, como es la filosofía, física, grabado, dibujo, política, ciencias físicas y naturales, biología
Danube represents Europe. The Ganges refers to the continent of Asia. The Río de la Plata represents America, the New World, and the Niles is Africa. A certain amount of the allegory and metaphors also surround the four river gods respectively. On the slim body of Roman made obelisk (Curran 284), hieroglyphics are displayed in sequential, and a dove and an olive branch, the pacific symbol of the Pamphili
reached a more official form sometime in between 1880 and 1890 (Collier, 1992). The tango as a dance was first established in Buenos Aires, Argentina, however there is also an early record of it some 200 kilometres away on the other side of the Rio de la Plaza estuary in Montevideo, Uruguay (Collier, 1992). During the nineteenth century, Argentina’s modernisation and agricultural capabilities led to a rapid influx of immigrants: between 1821 and 1932, Argentina received more immigrants than any
The movie, The Mission (1986), depicts events in South America, likely in what is now the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In the movie, a slave trader named Rodrigo Mendoza, played by Robert De Niro, makes his living by capturing slaves and bringing them to the Spanish Governor’s plantation. There, he catches his fiancée sleeping with his younger half-brother, which causes him, in a rage, to kill his younger brother. Due to this, he eventually joins a Jesuit mission. After coming into contact with a
Jose de San Martin was an Argentine liberator in South America. San Martin was considered one of the principal fighters against royalist forces in South America. He was considered a master in military strategy. This skill alone would lead him to success against the royalist forces. Jose de San Martin was born on February 28, 1778 in the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata’. He started his career in the military as an infantryman in the Murcia regiment in southeast Spain. Although a Spaniard, between
1607. Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe in 1577 under Elizabeth the First rule being one of the first to do so. he set out with five ships to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World. He abandoned two ships in the Río de la Plata in South America, and, with the remaining three, navigated the Straits of Magellan, the first Englishman to make the passage. A storm drove them far southward; one ship and its crew were destroyed, and
Cruz follow in the footsteps of pioneering Dolores Del Rio. Lauded as “The Princess of Mexico", Del Rio was a star whose allure captivated legendary figures Orson Wells, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley, and Frida Kahlo. Fast friend Marlene Dietrich labeled Dolores, "The most beautiful woman in Hollywood. She has better legs than Dietrich and better cheekbones than Garbo". A beauty that lead to wild rumors of an orchid petal diet, or that Del Rio slept 16 hours a day to maintain her loveliness. Sadly
these stories, however they fail to teach young ones about the horrible ways that the Indians were treated. “The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies” by Bartolome De Las Casas and “The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca” by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca shine a whole new light on this subject. Las Casas and de Vaca used their writings
Ferdinand Magellan was born circa 1480 in Sabrosa, Portugal. His father was Dom Ruy Magellan, a nobleman and sheriff. He was married to Donha Alda De Mesquite. He was born Fernão de Magalhães, but changed it later. Ferdinand Magellan had 2 siblings: a sister named Isabel and a brother named Diago De Souse. This aspiring explorer and adventurer spent his childhood as a page at the Portuguese court doing errands and chores. He also went to school at a monastery. When he was only 10 years old, Magellan’s
Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480, in a stone farm house in Portugal. His father's name was Dom Ruy Magellan, and his mother's name was Donha Alda De Mesquite. His father was a Portuguese nobleman and owned a large amount of land. He was also a sheriff, an honorary position awarded for distinguished service to the crown.Ferdinand's brother was named Diago De Sousa, a name he took from his wealthy grandmother, his sister was named Isabel Magellan. His family seemed to care about each other and respected
South America is the fourth largest continent in the world. It is a continent that is located in the Western Hemisphere and it can also be considered the subcontinent of America. South America is divided in twelve independent counties and their names are-Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, over sea department of French Guiana, Suriname, Ecuador, Uruguay and Paraguay. South America is boarded by Pacific Ocean in the west, Caribbean Sea in the North West and Atlantic Ocean in
Background “In 1816, the United Provinces of the Rio Plata declared their independence from Spain. After Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay went their separate ways, the area that remained became Argentina. The country's population and culture were heavily shaped by immigrants from throughout Europe, with Italy and Spain providing the largest percentage of newcomers from 1860 to 1930. Up until about the mid-20th century, much of Argentina's history was dominated by periods of internal political conflict
Vespucci was the one person for whom North and South America was named after. Vespucci had a wonderful life and found many things on his voyages. Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in March of 1451, and grew up in a considerable mansion near the river. As a young boy, Amerigo's happiest moments studying the stars. He excelled in mathematics and his hobby was copying maps. His dream as a young boy was to travel and get a better picture about what the Earth looked like. Amerigo spent half