La Plata Zoo and Botanical Garden, Municipal zoo and botanical garden in La Plata, Argentina.

The Jardín Zoológico y Botánico de La Plata occupies 17 hectares in the Paseo del Bosque, the second-largest state zoo in Argentina after Buenos Aires. Its first director, Alfredo Plot, laid out the main interior paths and the distribution of the enclosures. Under Carlos Marelli (1918–1940) it also became a botanical garden, with trees and shrubs from around the world and pavilions modelled on European zoos, such as the ungulate pavilion.

A small zoo already stood in the Paseo del Bosque in 1890-1891, but its animals were moved to the Buenos Aires zoo or mounted for the La Plata Museum during the crisis. In 1904 Governor Ignacio D. Irigoyen formed a commission to plan the zoo and the park, and Law 3059 of 13 October 1907 created the Jardín Zoológico de La Plata with 50,000 pesos. Its first director, Alfredo Plot, laid out the paths, donated his own bird collection and lived on the grounds from 1908.

The zoo is named after the Paseo del Bosque, the wooded park where it sits. Its first director, Alfredo Plot, lived with his family inside the grounds from 1908 in a wooden house at 52 and 115, and he donated his own bird collection when the animal stock was still scarce.

The 17-hectare grounds lie within the Paseo del Bosque, and the first director, Alfredo Plot, laid out the main interior paths. The Plot family lived inside the zoo from 1908 in a wooden house at 52 and 115. The site is being converted into a Bioparque, so some enclosures may be closed as animals are released.

The zoo's first director, Alfredo Plot, donated his own private bird collection when the animal stock was still scarce, and his family lived inside the grounds from 1908 in a wooden house at 52 and 115. He also founded a school of poultry, rabbit and bee keeping that operated for four years where the fire station now stands.