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In the year 1515 Juan Diaz de Solis discovered the Rio de la Plata, -- a discovery which cost him his life.
According to Herrera, this river to which Solis had first given his own name, took the one it now bears from the fact that the first silver brought from America was shipped at this point for Spain.