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___MASK51___ , officially the Oriental Republic of ___MASK51___ , is a country in the southeastern region of South America . It borders ___MASK64___ to its west and ___MASK35___ to its north and east , with the Río de la Plata ( River of Silver ) to the south and with the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast . ___MASK51___ is home to an estimated 3 . 42 million people , of whom 1 . 8 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city , Montevideo . With an area of approximately , ___MASK51___ is geographically the second - smallest nation in South America , only larger in size than Suriname . ___MASK64___ , officially the ___MASK8___ Republic , is a federal republic in the southern half of South America . Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with its neighbor Chile to the west , the country is also bordered by ___MASK93___ and Paraguay to the north , Brazil to the northeast , Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east , and the Drake Passage to the south . With a mainland area of , ___MASK64___ is the eighth - largest country in the world , the second largest in Latin America , and the largest Spanish - speaking one . The country is subdivided into twenty - three provinces ( singular " provincia ") and one autonomous city (" ciudad autónoma "), Buenos Aires , which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress . The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions , but exist under a federal system . Boedo is a working class " barrio " ( neighbourhood ) of Buenos Aires , ___MASK64___ . The neighborhood and one of its principal streets were named after Mariano Boedo , a leading figure in the ___MASK8___ independence movement . Mariano Boedo ( 25 July 1782 -- 9 April 1819 ) was an ___MASK8___ statesman and soldier . He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina . Boedo was born in Salta and was sent to Córdoba at a young age to study at the Loreto Seminary . He studied further at the Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia San Francisco Xavier , Chuquisaca and became a lawyer in 1805 , befriending Mariano Moreno there . They collaborated in the independence movement , in particular developing revolutionary propaganda . He became a member of Salta ' s cabildo in 1813 on the request of Manuel Belgrano , and took charge of the finances and administration of Salta Province . He was elected by the province to the Tucumán Congress and was the Vice - president of the Congress in 1816 for the declaration . He stepped down in 1818 due to ill health . Boedo took an active role in the military campaigns in the northern provinces with Martín Miguel de Güemes . He also served as governor of Córdoba . The barrio of Boedo in Buenos Aires was named in memory of Mariano Boedo . ___MASK93___ (; ), officially known as the Plurinational State of ___MASK93___ , is a landlocked country located in western - central South America . It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil , to the southeast by Paraguay , to the south by Argentina , to the southwest by Chile , and to the northwest by Peru . One - third of the country is the Andean mountain range , with one of its largest cities and principal economic centers , El Alto , located on the Altiplano . ___MASK93___ is one of two landlocked countries ( the other is Paraguay ) that lie outside Afro - Eurasia . ___MASK93___ is the largest landlocked country in the Americas . San Miguel de Tucumán ( usually called simply Tucumán ) is the capital of the Tucumán Province , located in northern ___MASK64___ from Buenos Aires . It is the fifth - largest city of ___MASK64___ after Buenos Aires , Córdoba , Rosario and Mendoza and the most important of the northern region . The Spanish Conquistador founded the city in 1565 in the course of an expedition from present - day ___MASK81___ . Tucumán moved to its present site in 1685 . The ___MASK34___ was one of the largest empires in history . It reached the peak of its military , political and economic power under the Spanish Habsburgs , through most of the 16th and 17th centuries , and its greatest territorial extent under the House of Bourbon in the 18th century , when it was the largest empire in the world . The ___MASK34___ became the foremost global power of its time and was the first to be called " the empire on which the sun never sets ". The Congress of Tucumán was the representative assembly , initially meeting in San Miguel de Tucumán , that declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America ( modern - day ___MASK64___ , Uruguay , part of ___MASK93___ ) on July 9 , 1816 , from the Spanish Empire . Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of ___MASK64___ . The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata , on the South ___MASK50___ continent ' s southeastern coast . " Buenos aires " can be translated as " fair winds " or " good airs ", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century , by the use of the original name " Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre ". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation , which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts , constitutes the fourth - most populous metropolitan area in the Americas , with a population of around 17 million . Barrio is a Spanish word meaning neighborhood . In ___MASK47___ , several Latin ___MASK50___ countries and the ___MASK88___ , the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality .