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Goya is a city in the south-east of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. This is a list of cities in Argentina. For a more exhaustive list of cities in a particular province see the main article linked to in each applicable section For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains Corrientes, Spanish for "currents" or "rapids" is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. Departments (departamentos form the second level of administrative division in the Provinces of Argentina. Goya Department is a department of Corrientes Province in Argentina. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least one unique alphanumeric Postal code to each Municipality. ISO 3166-2AR is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Argentina. A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks General phone calls within Argentina In Argentina, changes were made to area codes in 1999 when the telephone network was split up into three different areas with A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains Corrientes, Spanish for "currents" or "rapids" is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. La Mesopotamia, Región Mesopotámica or Litoral (" Littoral " is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising It has about 87,000 inhabitants as of the 2001 census [INDEC]. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population National Statistics and Censuses Institute ( Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC is the Argentine government agency responsible
The city lies on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Reconquista, Santa Fe, 222 kilometres south from the provincial capital (Corrientes) and 715 kilometres north-northwest from Buenos Aires. This article is about the second-longest river in South America For the shorter river in Goiás, central Brazil see Paranã River The Paraná River Reconquista is a city in the north of the, from the provincial capital. Foto-0065jpg|thumb|216px|The Belgrano Bridge]]Plaza 25 de mayo Corrientes Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern
Goya hosts the annual National Festival of the Surubí, which includes a fishing contest. For the computer security term see Phishing. Fishing is the activity of catching Fish. The surubí is a popular large catfish of the Paraná. Pseudoplatystoma is a Genus of several South American Catfish species of family Pimelodidae. Catfish ( order Siluriformes) are a very diverse group of bony Fish.
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Origin of its name
The city of Goya does not have foundation act and, in agreement with the oral tradition, its name comes from a visionary and enterprising woman, nicknamed Doña Goya, who settled in the proximities of the present "costanera" (coast area), with a business of general goods, in the decade of 1790. It is said that this lady made exquisite cheeses, with the milk of cows fed with reedbeds and coconuts. Whoever made the stop at this zone, bought and spread their qualities by all the ports of Parana, popularizing the name of its manufacturer of such way, that already in 1801, this "place" was identified like "Goya Port". (Jose M. Cabrer).
Swallows
Every November 24 thousands of migratory swallows arrive at Goya, coming from San Juan Capistrano, California, from where they leave on October 23 and cross around 11,000 kilometres following the Pacific coast. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal The swallows and martins are a group of Passerine Birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial San Juan Capistrano (pronounced wɑn kæpɪˈstɹɑnoʊ in English and xwan kapisˈtɾano in Spanish is a city in southern Orange County California, USA, located California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC - When arriving to Goya, the swallows (golondrinas) are received with a series of festivals at the Monument to the swallows located in the San Martín Square, one of the places preferred by these small birds to nest. The return to Capistrano of the first swallow initiates around February 18, to arrive to California on March 19 every year. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. This particular event encouraged the communal heads of Goya and San Juan de Capistrano, to sign a declaration of brotherhood between the two cities.
Renowned natives
- The psychiatrist José Tiburcio Borda (1869–1936)
- The baritone singer Armando Noguera
- The football player Horacio Ramón Cardozo
- The 1990 FIFA World Cup player Pedro Monzón
- The basketball player Federico Kammerichs
References
- Official site (Spanish)
- Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina. A psychiatrist (also archaically called an alienist) is a Physician who specializes in Psychiatry and is certified in treating Mental disorders This article is related to a series of articles under the main article Voice type. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Horacio Ramon Cardozo (born 29 November 1979, in Goya Corrientes, Argentina) is a Argentine football midfielder Pedro Damián Monzón (born February 23, 1962 in Goya Corrientes) is an Argentine football coach and former footballer best known Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m Guillermo Federico Kammerichs (born June 21, 1980 in Goya Corrientes, Argentina) is an Argentinian professional Basketball player
- Fiesta Nacional del Surubí - Official website of the National Festival of the Surubí.
- "Un poco de la historia de Goya" (Spanish)
- "San Juan Capistrano"
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