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Rio de la Plata — Argentina · Uruguay

Río de la Plata Colonia - Puerto Madero

50.0 km
Distance
Colonia del Sacramento ↔ Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Timeline

Computed from the recorded crossings: the first, the first by sex, the first from each country and every record broken.

  1. Jul 2015
    First crossingKaren Weir
  2. Jul 2015
    First womanKaren Weir
  3. Jul 2015
    First from countryKaren Weir🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  4. Jul 18, 2015
    RecordArgentina Winter Festival 2015Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Relay · 20:00

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Asociación de Cruce a Nado del Río de la Plata. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.