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Friday, May 16, 2008
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In the year 1516, Juan Díaz de Solís became the first European to reach the River Plate. With a detachment of seven men and two officers he journeyed upstream as far as the confluence of the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers, where reports from surviving crew indicate that he was brutally cannibalized by natives.