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The municipality of Goya (82,714 inhabitants , therefore the second most
populated municipality in the province) is located on the eastern shore of
river Paraná, here the border with the Santa Fe province, 220 km downstream
of Corrientes.
Goya emerged spontaneously, without deliberate planning,
in the 18th century as a trade post established on river Paraná. The
settlement was named, according to a local tradition, as a tribute to
Gregoria ("Goya") Morales, the mother of an influent villager. Bernardo
Olivera and his wife, Gregoria Morales, are said to have required the
concession of a plot, which was granted on 29 August 1771 by the Royal
Government of Corrientes. Gregoria Morales is said to have further managed a
busy shop on the river port of Goya. The year of foundation of the town,
unknown, was eventually fixed as 1807.
Goya was granted the status of town in
1852 by the provincial government.
http://www.goya.gov.ar -
Municipal website
The flag of Goya, designed by Hernán Scheller Romado
(b. in 1979 in Goya), was selected on 20 March 2017 in a public contest.
The flag is horizontally divided red-celestial blue-white-celestial
blue-green-brown (2:2:2:2:1:1). In the center is placed a yellow disk, in
diameter 6/10 of the flag, therefore matching the three central, celestial
blue and white stripes, charged with black figures: a Latin cross (center),
a swallow (top), a leaf (center left); a human face looking towards the fly
(center right), and a fish (bottom).
The red stripe represents
Federalism.
The next three stripes represent the Argentine national flag.
The green stripe represents the rich and diversified vegetation.
The brown
stripe represents the fertile soil.
The sun is a symbol of unity, truth,
clarity, majesty, abundance and wealth, and of liberty, as well.
The
swallow is a poet-inspiring bird, at the origin of the partnership with the
town of San Juan de Capistrano (USA). Big bands of swallows travel every
year between the two towns.
The feminine face is a tribute to the Goya women,
who acted with abnegation, of culture and public spiritedness. It is also a
token of respect to Gregoria Morales de Olivera - the town's namesake - and Sinforosa Rolón y Rubio, Isabel King, Mariana Encarnación Aguirre Silva,
Armanda Ambrosetti de Beltrán, Alcides de las Llanas, Genoveva Poncet,
Zulman Isabel Molinari de Baibiene, María Carmen D´Arrigo, María Dolores
Millán, Ana Palmira Viñón, Lilia Rosario Lucrecia Spinelli de Chas Grosso,
María Luisa Rodríguez, and María Nubia Mendíaz.
The tobacco leaves recall
that tobacco cultivation, harvest, industrial processing and trade boosted
the development of the town as the second most important in the province.
The cross was used before the Christian era and by non-Christian peoples as
a symbol of veneration of the natural environment.
The surubí*, nicknamed the
Prince of Paraná, is a symbol of the fish resources of the Middle Paraná.
Fishing as a great social significance and is celebrated in Goya by one of
the biggest sports festival in the
country.
http://www.ellitoral.com.ar/455362/Simbolos-de-Goya-ahora-flamearan-en-su-bandera - El Litoral, 21 March 2017
*The spotted sorubim,
Pseudoplatystoma
corruscans (Spix & Agassiz, 1829), is a species of catfish native to the
São Francisco and Paraná-Paraguay basins in South America. The Surubi
National Festival was first organized in 1969 by the hunting and fishing
club Doña Goya. The town was proclaimed Permanent Seat of the Surubi
National Festival by Resolution No. 30, adopted in 1980.
http://www.goyasurubi.com - Official website
The adoption of the flag
stirred controversy on the social networks. The flag was compared to a
Halloween banner. More relevantly, a woman from Goya pointed out that there
were too many charges for such a small disk, recommending to keep only the
swallow and the fish. The selection process was also questioned: a group of
people decided for the flag for the community without asking people's opinion
and without showing the other proposals; accordingly, the flag, "with due
respect to its designers", cannot represent Goya in any way.
http://www.nortecorrientes.com/article/115941/polemica-en-goya-por-el-diseno-de-la-bandera-de-la-ciudad - Diario Norte, 21 March 2017
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2017
