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Belgrano Department, Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina

Bandera Municipality

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Bandera Municipality

image located by Valentin Poposki, 3 September 2024

The flag of the Municipality of Bandera, Department of Belgrano appears to be irregularly banded with vertical stripes blue-white-red-white-blue, approximately 3:1:3:1:1 with the municipal emblem centered.

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Valentin Poposki, 3 September 2024

The emblem is canting, and thus this is a canting flag, for the toponym means "flag" in Spanish.

The usual “oval” (= vertically oblong ellipse) with a sun at the top is shown centered on the flag area, which seems to be between 2:3 and 3:5. The background is vertically stripped blue-white-red-white-blue in very unequal widths — roughly 3+1+3+1+1, which looks more like a graphical mishap than a daring design.

The emblem itself is encircled with a yellow rope (?), knotted at the bottom, and filled with a landscape sketch showing a hill summit where two types of terrain converge: green (grass) at the hoist side and light brown or orange (soil, mud, loam?) at the fly. On the former stands a dark brown (or black) cow, facing flywards, and on the latter sits a plough and some other farming implement, of the same color. On the straight dividing line, against a light blue sky, an improvised flag pole flies a plain brown flag (intermediate shade between those of the ground and of the cow and plough), shown fluttering to the fly. On the foreground (in what would be a heraldic base diminished, or plaine), a small blue area (same shade of blue as the flag background stripes), likely water, across the two terrain types.

On the photo, there’s a very thin white border all around the flag, much wider at the top, suggesting it is being held for inspection before trimming.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 September 2024