Everything about Sierra Del Plata totally explained
Sierra de la Plata (a term in
Spanish meaning "mountain range of silver"), was a legendary treasury of
silver that was believed to be located in
South America. The legend probably originated when the European survivors of a shipwreck were given abundant gifts of silver by the native peoples.
In the early
16th century, the
estuary of the
Uruguay and
Paraná rivers was named by the Spaniards
Río de la Plata ("river of silver", sometimes referred to in
English as the "River Plate") because it was at first believed to be a river that led to the Sierra del Plata. There is no evidence that any such mountain range of silver ever existed, and actually the region around the Río de la Plata isn't rich in silver mines; to find them, one ought to travel to the far
Andes, more than a thousand miles away. The closest mountain range that resembles the myth of the "mountain range of silver" is the silver mine of
Potosí in modern
Bolivia, a town known for its rich silver resources found on the town's mountain range.
The modern country of
Argentina takes its name from the
Latin word for silver,
argentum.
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