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Assuming that Buenos Aires stays under British control over the longer term, which is pretty unlikely, tango would still exist, just in a different form from the Italianate features so apparent in today's tango. After all, it was based on the dances of Afro-Argentines (who would still exist in...

I assure you that if the British (and other European powers) hadn't taken formal control over large tracts of Africa and Asia and had left the independent states of those continents alone, the British would have been very happy - and with much less hassle than otherwise - to keep to their...

Furthermore, in the 17th and especially 18th and early 19th centuries, tthe British established trading posts in India, Malaya, and parts of West Africa that eventually evolved into much larger British colonies. So, too, at least 1-2 British trading posts in South America could have led to...

But perhaps London would have realized, rather quickly, that Montevideo is significantly more strategic than Buenos Aires (e.g. better harbour, between the arch-rivals Buenos Aires and Brazil), and it just might be worth it for the British to endeavour to keep at least Montevideo (if not Buenos...

I think, frankly, that this thread has strayed quite far from my original question. For those of you who know a lot about the history of the Rio de la Plata (esp. in the early 1800s, like with the 1806-07 British invasions), my real question is: Would a British Uruguay alongside an independent...

The United States and Canada are each federal countries too. Both of those countries could easily have failed to become those exact countries in the first place, and states like Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Georgia, Missouri, and California, and provinces like New Brunswick, Quebec...

Here's something for counterfactual or alternate history: Once the British (under John Whitelocke) capture Buenos Aires in July 1807, they make the whole River Plate area (what they've captured up until then - Montevideo, Buenos Aires, etc.) a British protectorate. This would be a compromise...

I grant that there are Gaboto and Solís streets in many Argentine cities. It's just that in Argentina, there are a few towns named Colón and there's also the Teatro Colón right in the heart of Buenos Aires, but only one little town named Gaboto (Puerto Gaboto in full) but otherwise no towns or...

Excluding street names, why are there many more place names in Argentina with the name of Colón (after Christopher Columbus) than Gaboto (after Sebastian Cabot)* or Magallanes (after Ferdinand Magellan)**, even though both Cabot and Magellan (but not Columbus) explored various parts of...

Given that the University of Buenos Aires is the most prestigious public university in Argentina or Uruguay, is the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo more prestigious or less prestigious than the National Universities of La Plata and Cordoba, which are the next most prestigious public...

Coming to think of it, in such a situation (being more developed countries), there would be many more cars most probably, and those would create even more of a demand for more ferries - for example, one or two more boats going from BA to Colonia or Montevideo, but also a couple of whole...

I guess that, in general, the BA-Colonia and BA-Montevideo ferries follow the navigation channels outlined in the maps here?

If Argentina and Uruguay were both highly developed, First World countries, would it still be more cost-effective to run many short ferries between BA and Colonia and some ferries from BA to Montevideo, or would the economics allow for somewhat more ferry routes?

Regarding Punta del Este: The Bradt Travel Guide to Uruguay from 2010 (by Tim Burford) says the following: "Buquebus...runs both fast ferries and traditional slower ships from Buenos Aires; these no longer go directly to Punta del Este, but connecting buses go there from both Colonia and...

From my research, it seems to me that Buquebus also has a summer ferry from BA to Piriapolis, and there used to be a Buquebus ferry from BA to Punta del Este. Tell me if I'm wrong!

So you're saying, among other things, that in BsAs City and Province the buses are centred in Buenos Aires even more than the buses in Uruguay are centred in Montevideo? I guess that the economics of ferry vs. land travel is different in Western Europe, where the ferries go pretty much no...

But if, let's say, you live in Villa Gesell or Mar del Plata and you want to get to Uruguay, the best option would be to first get to Buenos Aires and then take the ferry from there. Whereas if there's an Uruguay-bound ferry leaving from, say, Punta Indio, it would be a more direct journey and...

I notice that there are ferries just between Buenos Aires or Tigre on the Argentine side and Montevideo or Colonia or Carmelo on the Uruguayan side. At some point in the past, did anyone ever try to set up a ferry between either Magdalena or Punta Indio or San Clemente del Tuyu or Villa Gesell...

Oh, and even if the BA-Colonia bridge were completed, would it still be more expensive for an ordinary motorist going from Buenos Aires to Montevideo (or vice versa) to go on that bridge than it is to go on the ferries such as the Buquebus? Because I read recently that the one-way toll for the...

But I thought that the more recent Rosario-Victoria bridge is also between Santa Fe and Entre Rios provinces.