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Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
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Spanish viceroyalties and Portuguese territories in the Americas, 1780
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Also Known As Virreinato del Río de la Plata • Viceroyalty of la Plata
Date 1776 - 1810

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Spanish viceroyalties and Portuguese territories in the Americas, 1780
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Laws of the Indies

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Argentina
Argentina
Uruguay
Uruguay
Bolivia
Bolivia
Paraguay
Paraguay

Key People

José de San Martín
José de San Martín
Argentine revolutionary
Pedro de Mendoza
Spanish explorer
José Gervasio Artigas
José Gervasio Artigas
Uruguayan revolutionary
Manuel Belgrano
Manuel Belgrano
Argentine military leader
Moreno, portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Historical Museum, Buenos Aires
Mariano Moreno
Argentine patriot
José Miguel Carrera
José Miguel Carrera
Chilean leader
Hernando Arias de Saavedra
governor of Río de la Plata