16 Facts About La Plata

1.

La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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2.

La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880.

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3.

La Plata was briefly known as Ciudad Eva Peron between 1952 and 1955.

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4.

La Plata hired urban planner Pedro Benoit, who designed a city layout based on a rationalist conception of urban centers.

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5.

Teatro Argentino de La Plata is one of the most important opera houses in Argentina, second to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.

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6.

Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, known as the "Estadio Unico", opened on 7 June 2003, as one of the most modern football stadiums in Latin America.

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7.

Estudiantes has become a permanent tenant of the new stadium while their own stadium is being modernized; Gimnasia La Plata has only played occasional home games in this stadium.

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8.

In 2011, the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata was one of the host sites for the 2011 Copa America including an opening-round match between Argentina and Bolivia, a semifinal game, and the third-place final.

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9.

On 25 February 2009, La Plata debuted a parking system that uses text messaging, thus becoming the first city in Argentina to use technology applications to control parking.

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10.

Metropolitan area of La Plata includes the neighborhoods of Tolosa, Ringuelet, Manuel B Gonnet, City Bell, Villa Elisa, Melchor Romero, Abasto, Gorina, Jose Hernandez, Angel Etcheverry, Arturo Segui, Los Hornos, Lisandro Olmos, Villa Elvira and Altos de San Lorenzo, all of which have community centers that operate as local delegations.

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11.

La Plata has a Stock Market founded in 1960, a member of the Argentine stock market system.

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12.

La Plata is a planned city, characterized by a strict grid crossed with diagonal avenues.

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13.

La Plata has one commercial airport, Aeropuerto de La Plata, which is not served by any airlines.

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14.

Municipal cemetery of La Plata was established in 1886 for the new capital of the province of Buenos Aires.

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15.

La Plata has Liga Amateur Platense de futbol that encompasses various clubs in the region, such as Club Atletico Estrella de Berisso, La Plata FC, Asociacion Nueva Alianza, and Club Everton.

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16.

City of La Plata has the particularity of being the only place in the country where the burning of Momos is held every New Year's Eve.

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