The New Student's Reference Work/La Plata

La Pla′ta, the chief city of the province of Buenos Aires in the Argentine Republic, was founded in 1882, after Buenos Aires city was made the federal capital (1884). The city was quickly built, with wide streets and many public squares, the center being lighted by electricity. The city has a capitol and government buildings, an observatory, several chapels, a railway station and a provincial university. It also has a manufactory of cotton and woolen tissues. A canal connects the outer harbor at Ensenada with La Plata. Population, including Ensenada (on the estuary of the Plata) and a country district of 60 square miles, 80,000.