Argentina-Uruguay Border - Argentina-Uruguay Border Crossings, Ro de La Plata, Uruguaiana, Uruguay River, Paysand, Bella Unin, Salto, Uruguay (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Argentina-uruguay Border Crossings, Ro de La Plata, Uruguaiana, Uruguay River, Paysand, Bella Unin, Salto, Uruguay, Concordia, Entre Ros, Salto Grande Dam, Brazilian Island, Libertador General San Martn Bridge, General Artigas Bridge, Nueva Palmira, Salto Grande Bridge. Excerpt: The Ro de la Plata (Spanish: "River of Silver") always rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth, and occasionally rendered Plata River in other English-speaking countries is the river formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paran River. It is a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America, extending 290 kilometres (180 mi) from the rivers' confluence to the Atlantic Ocean. Not all people consider the Ro de la Plata a river but to those who do it is the widest river in the world. The Ro de la Plata grows from 48 kilometres (30 mi) wide where the rivers meet to 220 kilometres (137 mi) wide to the southeast where it opens on the Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay, with the major ports and capital cities of Buenos Aires in the northwest and Montevideo in the southeast. The basin drained by the main tributaries of the Ro de la Plata the Uruguay and Paran, and the important Paran tributary, the Paraguay River covers approximately one fifth of South America, including area in southeastern Bolivia, southern and central Brazil, the entire nation of Paraguay, most of Uruguay and northern Argentina. An estimated 57 million cubic meters (2 billion cubic feet) of silt is carried into the estuary each year, where the muddy waters are stirred up by winds and the tides. The shipping route from the Atlantic to Buenos Aires is kept open by constant dredging. The Internatio... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=193526