Iridaceaes" Río Cochrane: after Lord Cochrane who served in the Chilean Navy Río Futaleufú: Mapudungun for "big river" Río Ibañez: after Carlos Ibáñez del Campo former president of Chile Río Imperial: after the old city of Carahue, formerly known as Imperial. Paraná River: Guarani "Copious River" Río de la Plata: Spanish for "Silver River" Rio Roosevelt (sometimes Rio Teodoro): after Theodore Roosevelt Río Valdivia: after the Spanish conquistador of Chile Pedro de Valdivia See also Hydronymy Lists of etymologies Toponomy References Bibliography Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press Blažek, Václav, and Ondřej Šefčík. "Oronyms Derived from Water? Mons Abnobae and Haraitī". Historische Sprachforschung [Historical Linguistics] 124 (2011): 239–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41553574. Hamp, Eric P. ""Water" in Italic and Keltic". In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 12, fascicule 2, 1970. pp. 547–550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.1970.1436 ; www.persee.fr/doc/ecelt_0373-1928_1970_num_12_2_1436 Name River names Hydronymy pt:Hidrônimo