Plata, Texas, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States
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La Plata, the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Juan Carlos Plata (born 1971), a Guatemalan retired football player
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Augusto Lima participated in the national team that won the runner-up of 2011 FIBA Americas Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina, which ranked Brazil for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great-Britain.
The Portuguese, being able to advance without resistance in the sparsely populated territory, founded the city Colonia del Sacramento on the banks of Rio de la Plata, across from Buenos Aires, in 1680.
On 6 February 1996, the Boeing 757-225 operating the route crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperón International Airport.
He was a professor at the University of La Plata and Buenos Aires in Argentina, curator of the herbarium of the National Department of Agriculture, first head of the herbarium of Museo de la Plata, and founder of an arboretum and an institute of mycology in La Plata city.
Calcagno worked as an economics consultant and journalist, including for Le Monde Diplomatique (Southern Cone Edition), Diario Hoy of La Plata, the magazines Veintitrés and Veintitrés Internacional and Terra.
While engaged in this work, the ill-fated La Plata, carrying cable from the Siemens AG company to Montevideo, sank in a cyclone off Ushant with the loss of nearly all her crew.
He was born in La Paz, after taking private lessons of music theory, piano and viola in his youth, he began formal musical studies in 1983 at La Plata's National University, Faculty of Beaux Arts in Argentina, under the guidance of Argentinian composer Mariano Etkin.
On February 27, 1985, La Plata was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan created by 98 Stat.
Despite his disapproval of the work of René Descartes, John Locke, and Gottfried Leibniz, for instance, Funes' reforms were sufficiently ambitious to run afoul of the Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, Rafael de Sobremonte.
Hydrospatial Exhibition organized by Argentine "Confagua" and the ONU for the "Water World Conference", Mar del Plata, Argentina.
His work has received recognitions such as Concurso Nacional de Pintura Mural in 1953, Medalla de Plata from the state of Sonora in 1992 and was honored by the city of Cajeme for his artistic and teaching work in 2002.
Isla de la Plata is a small island off the coast of Manabí, Ecuador, and is part of Parque Nacional Machalilla.
In 1809 he took command of the Peruvian royalist armies in Upper Peru, sent to suppress the revolutionary forces at La Paz, even though this province belonged the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
Josefina Jose Herrero (born 1995) is a student in Mercedes and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Argentina World 2012 was crowned Miss Argentina World 2012 at the Costa Galana Hotel in Mar del Plata on April 13, 2012.
Plata, born in Guatemala City, made his debut in the Liga Mayor (Major League, now Liga Nacional) in the 1990–1991 league season, won by Municipal, under coach Rubén Amorín.
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Plata's most famous goal with the national team, however, might be the one he scored in the dying seconds of the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Brazil, a header from a corner kick to equalize the score 1–1, a very surprising result considering Brazil were the reigning world champions at the time and fielded stars like Romario, Mauro Silva, Edmundo, Denilson and Taffarel.
On his return to Peru, he was hired as maestro de capilla of Cuzco Cathedral, and in 1680 of Sucre Cathedral (then the Cathedral of La Plata) in Bolivia, where he stayed until his death, and where he trained up to four notable música criollo composers including Blas Tardío de Guzmán.
This Spanish article references the writers José Manuel Caballero Bonald and :es:Alfonso Grosso (who also painted her portrait), the flamencólogo professors Daniel Pineda Novo (who wrote her biography) and Juan de la Plata, Pablillos de Valladolid, and her contemporary the flamenco cantaor Fernando el de Triana (1870-1940), who as Fernando Rodríguez Gómez wrote his account of fellow performers, Arte y artistas flamencos (Madrid: Imprenta helénica 1935).
The best-known and highest peak in the La Plata Mountains is Hesperus Mountain, which is the Navajo sacred mountain of the north.
La Plata is home to one of the fiercest derby matches (clásicos) in Argentine football, contested between Estudiantes and Gimnasia y Esgrima.
In 1881 the property was sold to mine promoters George D. Roberts and Whitaker Wright, who split the property among five companies: Sierra Apache Co., Sierra Bella Co., Sierra Grande Co., Sierra Madre Co., and the Sierra Plata Co., and stock was sold widely in the east.
The film is loosely based on the 1974 novel Los Andes no creen en Dios by Adolfo Costa du Rels and two short stories by the same author, La Misk'isimi (Sweet Lips in Quechua) and Plata del diablo (The Devil's Silver).
Luis Guillermo Plata Páez is a Colombian Business Administrator who served as Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia from 2007 to 2010 and before as President of Proexport from 2002 to 2007, both during the administration of president Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
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Plata began his career in the public service in the early 90's in the Trade Office of the Embassy of Colombia in Tokyo where he eventually became the Director of Proexport’s commercial office in Tokyo, then took charge of the agency’s office in Taipei, with responsibility also as correspondent for Hong Kong.
It incorporates beaches, fog forest, dry forest, small islands and two larger islands, Salango and Isla de la Plata, the latter named for a legendary hoard of silver left by Sir Francis Drake.
The cousin of the ex-governor, Gilberto Lerma Plata, was arrested in the McAllen–Hidalgo–Reynosa International Bridge on 12 April 2012 by federal agents for alleged drug conspiracy.
She played between 1938 and 1959, and was considered a top 20 player, winning the Irish Open (1950), Israel International (1950), Cologne International (1951), Baden-Baden (1951) and Welsh International (1954), and several times the Rio de la Plata Championship.
He took second place at Viña del Mar 1945, with 10½/13, behind Guimard, then won Mar del Plata 1945 with 11/15, ahead of Ståhlberg, and repeated at Mar del Plata 1946 with 16/18, ahead of Guimard and Ståhlberg.
Monte Plata Batley Juan Sanchez Airport is located in Monte Plata, Dominican Republic.
He played loaned during 2007 in Uruguayan Central Español, and played his first 9 games with Gimnasia La Plata when he returned from the loan.
He tied for 4th/5th in the Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament (Gideon Ståhlberg won), took 3rd in Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata), won in Buenos Aires, and tied for 3rd/4th at Águas de São Pedro/São Paulo 1941 (Erich Eliskases won).
Pedro de Melo de Portugal y Vilhena (29 April 1733 in Badajoz – 15 April 1797 in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish soldier and politician, who served as viceroy in the Rio de la Plata.
El Peligro, a town in the La Plata Partido of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Furthermore, the most important donation was given by the legal representatives of beer company Quilmes in Mar del Plata, José Deyaccobi, who donated the club a set of uniform jerseys, which were equal to River Plate away kit.
During this time they won the Champion's Trophy in 1993 (Amsterdam), 1995 (Mar del Plata), 1997 (Berlin) and 1999 (Brisbane), the World Hockey Cup in 1994 (Dublin) and 1998 (Netherlands) and were gold medallists in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and Sydney Olympics in 2000 and 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
After leaving La Plata in 1951 he taught theoretical and advanced physics at the University of Buenos Aires.
Copa Aldao (Copa Río de la Plata) Winner: 1940, 1942 and 1946.
Sobremonte is the last name of Rafael de Sobremonte, 3rd Marquis of Sobremonte, viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
Juan de Araujo, was maestro de capilla of the Cathedral of La Plata 1680-1712, training up four important criollo composers: Andrés Flores, Sebastián de los Ríos, Roque Jacinto de Chavarría, and Blas Tardío y Guzmán who himself was maestro from 1745.
Leading Argentine university leaders in the past, notably La Plata University President Joaquín V. González and University of Tucumán founder Juan Bautista Terán, had advocated a more decentralized system as early as the 1910s.
The Vía de La Plata (Silver Way) or Ruta de la Plata (Silver Route) is an ancient commercial and pilgrimage path that crosses the west of Spain from north to south, connecting Mérida to Astorga.
Alonso Mercado y Villacorta, Spanish civil servant, acting in the Río de la Plata area
In 1839 he published Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, an account of the geology of the Buenos Aires and Río de la Plata region and his findings of mammalian fossils, presenting Megatherium bones which were assembled and exhibited in the Natural History Museum, London.
Zephyranthes candida, the white fairy lily or white rain lily, a plant species native to the Rio de la Plata region of South America