Río de la Plata

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/ro-de-la-plata

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How wide is Río de la Plata?220 kilometers (140 miles), potentially making it the world's widest river
2. How long is Río de la Plata?Approximately 290 kilometers (180 miles)
3. What is the discharge point?Atlantic Ocean
4. What is the major urban centers?Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay)
5. Why is it called River of Silver?Spanish explorers named it because they hoped to find silver, inspired by the shiny ornaments of indigenous people, but they didn't find much silver.
6. Where are the big cities along the Río de la Plata?Buenos Aires in Argentina and Montevideo in Uruguay are the main cities on its banks, growing from colonial towns to big cultural and economic centers.

Estuary: A partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it.
Confluence: The junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width.
Hydrodynamics: The study of the motion of fluids and the forces acting on them.
Sedimentology: The study of sediments and the processes of their formation, transport, deposition, and lithification.