Question

To commemorate the 2010 bicentennial of its salt mines, a polluted tributary of this river was dyed Uriburu Green. It’s not Tampa, but a city along this river created the longest continuous sidewalk in the world inspired by Barcelona’s Rambla. (10[1])A dialect named for this river (-5[1])is used by the poet Oscar Conde and includes terms named after “Lombard villainy.” (10[1])This river’s estuary is bounded by a line that runs from Cabo San Antonio to (10[1])Punta del Este. (10[2])The Admiral (10[1]-5[1])Graf Spee (10[2])was (10[2])scuttled in this river (10[4])after (10[1])the first naval (10[1])battle of World War II. The most (10[1])spoken (10[1])dialect to use (10[1])“vos” in place of “tú” originated along this river in neighborhoods (10[1])like Palermo. The Superclásico (10[2])is played between a team named for this body of water and Boca Juniors. For (10[1])10 points, the tango developed in dancehalls along what river whose estuary borders Montevideo and Buenos Aires? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Río de la Plata [or Plate River; accept Rioplatense Spanish]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%8%90.50

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Conor ThompsonIowa State APenn A3910
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AFlorida B45-5
Natan HoltzmanStanford AOhio State A5910
Stevie MillerMaryland ACornell A7410
Rodrigo RoseMIT ACornell B7710
Daniel MaYale AWUSTL A7710
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AColumbia B7910
Ashish SubramanianDuke AChicago A79-5
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AColumbia A8110
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech ABrown A8110
Kevin FanMcGill AYale B8210
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley BNYU A8210
Tracy MirkinFlorida AChicago B8610
Joel MilesMinnesota AUC Berkeley A8610
Justin WytmarIllinois AGeorgia Tech B8610
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto ATexas A8610
Alan WuRutgers BPurdue A8710
Dean Ah NowClaremont AWUSTL B9010
Justin HawkinsIndiana ANorth Carolina A9710
Aiden DartleyRutgers APenn State A9810
Joseph ChambersVirginia ASouth Carolina A10110
Robert CondronChicago CHarvard A11210
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BVanderbilt A11610
Subhamitra Banerjee RoychoudhuryMichigan AMinnesota B11610
Carlos DoebeliImperial AHouston A13110
Matt JacksonChicago ADuke A14910