La Plata is a partido in

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, some southeast of the city of

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. It has an area of , and a population of 654,324 (). Its capital is

La Plata La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...

, which also serves as the capital of the province. La Plata is the centre of the

Greater La Plata Gran La Plata (Greater La Plata) is an urban agglomeration formed around the city of La Plata, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It includes the La Plata, Berisso and Ensenada '' partidos'' (departments). Location Gran La Plata is located to ...

urban conurbation. Many of the suburbs have train links to both Buenos Aires and La Plata, and also good road access via the Buenos Aires-La Plata toll highway. There is also an extensive network of buses serving the Greater La Plata area. The city of

Manuel B. Gonnet Manuel B. Gonnet is a city in La Plata Partido, Argentina. It is part of a group of neighborhoods developed around the then Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (later Ferrocarril General Roca) connecting La Plata with Buenos Aires, and Tolosa, Buen ...

features the ''República de los Niños'' theme park. Several parks lie along the '' Camino General Belgrano'' road, which crosses the partido north-to-south, notably the '' Parque Pereyra Iraola''.

Education

The city has a good number of educational institutions at various levels, both public and private. The most renowned public schools are three of the four members of the UNLP: the Colegio Nacional Rafael Hernández, the Liceo Víctor Mercante and the Bachillerato de Bellas Artes. La Plata is a symbol of a distinguished and prolific academy.

Sports

La Plata is home to one of the fiercest derby matches ''(clásicos)'' in Argentine

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, contested between Estudiantes and Gimnasia y Esgrima.

Settlements

According to the definitions provided by

INDEC The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses ( es, link=no, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos; INDEC) is an Argentine decentralized public body that operates within the Ministry of Economy, which exercises the direction of all of ...

, these are the localities and neighborhoods that are located inside of La Plata Partido.

Localities

* Country Club El Rodeo * Ignacio Correas * Lomas de Copello * Ruta Sol

Entities

Abasto The Abasto Shopping is one of the biggest shopping mall centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building was the central wholesale fruit and vegetable market in the city ("Mercado de Abasto") from 1893 to 1984. Since 1999, it has served as a shop ...

* Angel Etcheverry * Arana * Arturo Segui * Barrio El Carmen (Oeste) *

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Barrio Las Malvinas ''Barrio'' () is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, arch ...

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City Bell City Bell is a town located in La Plata Partido, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located some 10 kilometers from the city center. It forms part of the Greater La Plata urban agglomeration. The earliest settlement in City Bell was founded around 1 ...

* El Retiro *

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* José Hernández *

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* La Cumbre *

(capital) *

Lisandro Olmos Lisandro Olmos is a town in Argentina, located in the La Plata Partido of Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It tak ...

Los Hornos Los Hornos is a town in La Plata Partido, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Los Hornos belongs to the ''Greater La Plata'' urban conglomerate. Its name, (Spanish for "the rickovens" or "the furnaces"), refers to the several brick A brick is a typ ...

* Ringuelet *

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* Tolosa *

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* Villa Elisa *

Villa Elvira Villa Elvira is a district in Argentina, dependent of the La Plata city located in the La Plata Partido of Buenos Aires Province. References Populated places in Buenos Aires Province La Plata Partido {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub ...

* Villa Garibaldi *

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* Villa Parque Sicardi

Parajes

Aside from the localities and neighborhoods recognized by

, there are also a number of ''parajes'' (roughly translated to ''rest stops'') inside La Plata Partido, which are defined by BAHRA (''Base de Asentamientos Humanos de la República Argentina'', or Database of Human Settlements of the Argentine Republic). *

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* Esquina Negra *

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* Martín García *

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References

External links

*
La Plata
at Observatorioamba.org

Partidos of Buenos Aires Province 1882 establishments in Argentina {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub