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National Surubi Festival in Goya
A week-long sport-fishing competition on the Parana River in Goya, Corrientes, targeting the surubi catfish under catch-and-release rules. Running since 1969, it pairs roughly 500 competing boats with a folk-music program, trade fair and the crowning of a festival queen. More than half a century of continuous recognition as a national event has made it one of Argentina's longest-running river-fishing festivals, anchored in a host city whose economy and identity are built around Parana River fishing tourism.
Roughly 500 boats fan out across the Parana River each late April for a catch-and-release sport-fishing competition that put this Corrientes river town on Argentina's fishing map.