GOYA  , a

river town and port of Corrientes, Argentine Republic, the commercial centre of the south-western departments of the province and chief town of a department of the same name, on a riacho or side channel of the Parana about 5 M. from the main channel and about 120 M . S. of the city of Corrientes . Pop . (19o5, est.) 7000 . The town is built on low ground which is subject to inundations in very wet weather, but its streets are broad and the general appearance of its edifices is good . Among its public buildings is a handsome parish church and a national normal school . The productions of the neighbourhood are chiefly pastoral, and its exports include cattle, hides, wool and oranges . Goya had an export of crudely-made cheese long before the modern cheese factories of the Argentine Republic came into existence . The place dates from 1807, and had its origin, it is said, in the trade established there by a ship captain and his wife Gregoria or Goya, who supplied passing vessels with beef .