Goya, Corrientes
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Goya is a city in the south-east of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 87,000 inhabitants as of the
The city lies on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Reconquista, Santa Fe, 222 km south from the provincial capital (Corrientes) and 715 km north-northwest from Buenos Aires.
Goya hosts the annual National Festival of the Surubí, which includes a fishing contest. The surubí is a popular large catfish of the Paraná.
Renowned natives
- The psychiatrist José Tiburcio Borda (1869–1936)
- The baritone singer Armando Noguera
- The football player Horacio Ramón Cardozo
- The basketball player Federico Kammerichs
References
- [Official site] (Spanish)
- [Municipal information] - Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina.
- [Fiesta Nacional del Surubí] - Official website of the National Festival of the Surubí.
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