United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata United Provinces in South America Provincias Unidas en Sud-América | |||||||||||||||
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| 1810–1831 | |||||||||||||||
| Motto: En unión y libertad "In Union and Freedom" | |||||||||||||||
| Anthem: Marcha patriótica "Patriotic March" | |||||||||||||||
| Sol de Mayo "Sun of May" | |||||||||||||||
Territory ever controlled (not simultaneously)
Territory claimed but never controlled | |||||||||||||||
| Status | Spanish provinces (1810-1816) Sovereign state (1816-1831) | ||||||||||||||
| Capital | Buenos Aires | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Spanish Indigenous languages | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Catholicism | ||||||||||||||
| Government |
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| Recognised Monarch | |||||||||||||||
• 1810–1816 | Ferdinand VII | ||||||||||||||
| Head of State | |||||||||||||||
• 1810–1811 | Cornelio Saavedra | ||||||||||||||
• 1811 | Domingo Matheu | ||||||||||||||
• 1811-1812 | First Triumvirate | ||||||||||||||
• 1812-1814 | Second Triumvirate | ||||||||||||||
• 1814-1820 | Supreme Director | ||||||||||||||
• 1826–1827 | Bernardino Rivadavia | ||||||||||||||
• 1827 | Vicente López y Planes | ||||||||||||||
| Governor of Buenos Aires | |||||||||||||||
• 1820 | Matías de Irigoyen | ||||||||||||||
• 1820-1828 | See full list... | ||||||||||||||
• 1828-1827 | Manuel Dorrego | ||||||||||||||
• 1828-1829 | Juan Lavalle | ||||||||||||||
• 1829-1832 | Juan Manuel de Rosas | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| 1806–1807 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 May 1810 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 July 1816 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 February 1820 | |||||||||||||||
| 1826-1827 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 August 1828 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 January 1831 | |||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1810 census | 530,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Currency | Real (1813-1815) Sol (1815-1826) Peso fuerte (1826-1881) | ||||||||||||||
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The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata or United Provinces of the River Plate, along with United Provinces in South America, are names used to refer to the emerging state that succeeded the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata after the May Revolution, from 1810 to 1831, encompassing the Argentine War of Independence, the Cisplatine War and the beginning of the Argentine Civil Wars. The aforementioned state is now the Argentine Republic. The name "United Provinces of the Río de la Plata" is recognised as one of the official names of Argentina according to Article 53 of its constitution.