Governorate of the Río de la Plata

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The Governorate of the Río de la Plata was a 16th–17th century Spanish colonial administrative district in southern South America that encompassed parts of present-day Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish colonial governorate
former administrative division
administrativeCenter Asunción
Buenos Aires
administrativeLanguage Spanish language
borderedBy Atlantic Ocean
Portuguese America
capital Asunción
Buenos Aires
colonialPower Spain
continent South America
country Spanish Empire
currency Spanish real
dissolutionReason administrative division into smaller governorates
endTime 1617
establishedBy Crown of Spain
surface form: Spanish Crown
governmentForm colonial governorate
includedCity Asunción
Buenos Aires
includedRegion La Plata Basin
surface form: Río de la Plata Basin

Paraguay River
surface form: Upper Paraguay

parts of Upper Peru
language Spanish
legalSystem Castilian law
locatedInPresentDay Argentina
Bolivia
Paraguay
Uruguay
metropolitanAuthority Viceroy of Peru
namedAfter Río de la Plata
officialReligion Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Catholic Church
partOf Council of the Indies jurisdiction
Spanish America
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
surface form: Spanish colonial Southern Cone
predecessor Governorate of New Andalusia
primaryRiver Paraguay River
Paraná River
Río de la Plata
surface form: Río de la Plata estuary
religion Roman Catholicism
sovereign Kingdom of Spain
startTime 1549
subdivisionOf Viceroyalty of Peru
successor Governorate of the Río de la Plata self-linksurface differs
surface form: Governorate of Buenos Aires

Governorate of Paraguay
Governorate of the Río de la Plata self-linksurface differs
surface form: Governorate of the Río de la Plata and Paraguay
timePeriod 16th century
17th century

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Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region appliesToJurisdiction Governorate of the Río de la Plata
Governorate of Paraguay successor Governorate of the Río de la Plata
Governorate of Paraguay borderedBy Governorate of the Río de la Plata
this entity surface form: Governorate of Río de la Plata
Governorate of the Río de la Plata successor Governorate of the Río de la Plata self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Governorate of the Río de la Plata and Paraguay
Governorate of the Río de la Plata successor Governorate of the Río de la Plata self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Governorate of Buenos Aires