The astronomical observatory of the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, with ground broken in November 1883 as part of urban planner Pedro Benoit's design for the newly founded city, under a decree issued by the province's governor and the city's founder, Dardo Rocha. Its first director, Francisco Beuf, had previously led the Naval Observatory of Toulon in France, and the observatory grew out of Argentina's 1872 National Meteorological Bureau, itself established at the invitation of American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould.
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OperationalSource states ground was broken in November 1883; no separate first-observations or operations-start date was found Observatory Typeastronomical observatory 1 LocationLa Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: La Plata Astronomical Observatory
Lead section, first sentence
The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lead section, place-name clause
The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
History section, groundbreaking sentence
Designed by the master planner of La Plata, Pedro Benoit, ground was broken on the observatory in November 1883.
In Group: Optical Observatories of the Americas, Lead sentence
The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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