Who discovered Argentina and when did they discover it?

Question

Pleasee if anyone knows! I can't seem to find it anywhere

Answer 1

In 1480 the Inca Empire attacked and conquered Northwestern Argentina. But it was in 1516 that explorers first discovered Argentina, a Spanish seaman named Juan Díaz de Solís found the area of present day Buenos Aires, but his expedition was cut short. Then in 1580 a Spanish gold seeking expedition led by Pedro de Mendoza created the permanent settlement of today's Buenos Aires.

Answer 2

The Europeans arrived in the region with the 1502 voyage of Amerigo Vespucci. Spanish navigator Juan Díaz de Solís visited the territory which is now Argentina in 1516. Spain established a permanent colony on the site of Buenos Aires in 1580 as part of the Viceroyalty of Peru; initial settlement was primarily overland from Peru.

The natural port of the Río de la Plata estuary could not be used because all communications and commerce were meant to be made through Lima's port, a condition that made contraband the usual way of commerce in cities such as Asunción, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo.

The Spanish raised the status of this region by establishing the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (Virreinato del Río de la Plata) in 1776. This short-lived viceroyalty comprised today's Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, as well as much of present-day Bolivia.

During this era, Buenos Aires became a flourishing port only after the creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, as the revenues from the Potosí, the increasing maritime activity in terms of goods rather than precious metals, the production of cattle for exports of leather and other products, and other political reasons, made Buenos Aires gradually become one of the most important commercial centers of the region.

However the viceroyalty was shortlived, due to lack of internal cohesion among the many regions that constituted it and lack of Spanish support. It crashed when Napoleon successfully invaded Spain and overthrew the Spanish monarchy.

Before the Spanish the Incas invaded Argentina