Orizona

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Orizona is a small town and municipality in Goiás state, Brazil. Orizona was founded by Joaquim Fernandes de Castro and José Pereira Cardoso in 1850 when they started construction of a chapel on the banks of the Ribeirão Santa Bárbara, a tributary of the Corumbá River. In 1890 the settlement became a district called Capela dos Correias, and in 1909 it became a city called Campo Formoso. In 1943 the name was changed to Orizona, "oriza", meaning rice, and "zona", meaning region--Region of Rice. The name was chosen is a public contest, in which 42 people voted. It was suggested by a doctor, Dr. Raphael Leme Franco. The names proposed were Caruaba, Coema, Manhana, Orizona, Porangatu, Potira, Jubara and Oriza.