1º_ 'La Plata' is the name of the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). It was designed in the nineteenth century based on fifteenth-century criteria, with strong Masonic influence; And it is one of the few cities built ad hoc to be a capital. It is also the name of the La Plata Partido (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina), a municipality in the Huila Department (Colombia), a locality in Zulia (Venezuela), two cities (one in Maryland and one in Missouri) plus a county in Colorado, the latter in the USA. 2º_ The Argentine city has given name to different streets, educational, sports, cultural institutions and even an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter discovered from the Astronomical Observatory of La Plata.