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Argentina: Littoral - Goya
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oya, history and passion.
Different migratory currents were arriving at which 3000 A.C are today the Argentine territory around the year.
At the zone that occupies to us, they arrived descendants of the Indians of the Caribe, the guaraníes.
They belonged to the great tupi-guaraní linguistic family who includes a great part of South America. Nevertheless, in our country they did not occupy great extensions, settled down in the neighborhoods of the rivers Parana, Uruguay, Iguazú and other sources of water of the region, in the most Eastern islands of the Delta of the Parana and in which are more near their opening, also to the north of the province of Corrientes and in a small part of the Chaco salteño.
The forest provided to them with everything what they needed to live: food, dress, medicines and shelter. Guaraní, means soldier. Its God was Tupa. They did not have ídolos temples nor; Tupa is in the nature, the breeze and the sounds of the forest.
They loved music and they had zoology knowledge, botany and medicine.
The nomadic, polígamos guaraníes were semi, they did not adore ídolos and they ate what the nature provided to them.
Passing the Spanish colonization, the city of Goya was originated like establishment in century XVIII, motivated by the progressive task of the fluvial commerce via Parana river, by which exit occurred and dealt the important production land-cattle from Paraguay towards the South, merchandise that arrived at the port of Buenos Aires and from there re-embarked, is to mainly say era exported to Europe.
This harbor movement was approaching people towards the place, mainly "of the same country" Creoles, who until then lived in noninundables earth of where "Dirt road" was in favor the plan of the call, with its "slugs" in the passage of Buenos Aires with Corrientes and Asunción. Of that way this town was growing, that with time would become the « Port of Goya ».
By chance of the destiny, the Bernardine marriage Moral Olivera and Gregoria had solved to settle down to the south of the Santa Lucia river, in proximities of the "Reduction of Santa Lucia de los Astos", at that time only site of civilization and evangelización of the zone; and here, in these latitudes, they raised its right house to borders of the river Parana Miní. Olivera appears before the Real Town hall peticionando is granted to him in deposit...
"an empty, barren and depopulated land, to be able to raise in him some animals, to maintain to their numerous family... earth that are finds in the other band that calls" Santa Lucia ", in the coast of the Parana river (that is to say, Parana Miní)".
This petitionary one was listened to by the Real Town hall of Currents, having adjudged him to it the asked for Earth the 29 of August of 1771 with character of "favor" to one of which until that date they were subject.
According to which now it is known, Goya never was founded, that is to say, that did not fulfill the traditional ceremony of conquest and Spanish colonization for those events. City in 1852 was declared, and its name is in tribute to the settler mentioned one Doña Gregoria Moral de Olivera (Doña Goya), that had a commerce of general sale and was famous by the cheese elaboration. Between the historical landmarks that made it famous to the city of Goya, this the History of Camila ÓGorman, who was protagonist of a famous drama during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas.
Daughter of Adolph O´Gorman and Périchon de Vandeuil, her mother was Juaquina Ximénez and Pinto.
She was granddaughter of Ana Perichon, the famous "friend" of Santiago de Liniers, reconquistador of Buenos Aires.
Camila was born in Buenos Aires in 1828. Tapeworm nineteen years when it knew the parish priest of Socorro, Ladislao Gutiérrez, arrived from Tucumán. The young person sang in religious functions and treated to the priest in their house, that it frequented. The spiritual affinity was transformed into love and the pair decided to flee from Buenos Aires, the 11 of December of 1847, in the direction of San Fernando, under the names of Valentin Desan and Maximo Brandier. There they embarked with the complicity of the pattern of the boat and arrived at Goya, Corrientes, in as much were looked for by order of the father of Camila. But its luck was written. The forces of the government find them and apresan. In a cold dawn of the 18 of August of 1848, Camila ÓGorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are shot. The pestered bodies of the lovers finally manage to perpetuate the hug by which the life took off to them.
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