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The municipality of Fortín Olmos (1,991 inhabitants in 2001) is located in the north of the Santa Fe Province, 330 km from Santa Fe City.
The flag of Fortín Olmos is horizontally divided blue-green-red. In the middle is placed the municipal coat of arms, designed some years ago by alumni from the village.
The flag was inaugurated on 25 September 2011.
Ivan Sache, 18 Jan 2014
![[Municipality of Vera flag]](../images/a/ar-s-ve.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 December 2016
The municipality of Vera (20,509 inhabitants in 2010; 165,700 h),
located 260 km north of Santa Fé, is the capital of the Vera department.
Vera and
the surroundings were listed in the 1887 census as "uninhabited" and
"unexplored". Colonists of different origins settled in the area to exploit
the dense forests.
A railway station was established in 1890, near a curve in
the railway heading to Resistencia; the station was named Vera, for Mariano
Vera, Provincial Governor from 1816 to 1818, while the settlement that
emerged was named La Curva.
In 1892, the landlord Eugenio Alemán proposed to
establish a new settlement, which was approved on 23 June 1892 by the
Provincial Government. The town was named Jobson, for Juan Pedro Jobson, the
man appointed by the government to organize the defence of the region from
native's raids. The Provincial Government called the department Vera,
for Antonio de Vera y Mujica, a Spaniard who had campaigned against the
natives assaulting Santa Fé; accordingly, the town was known as Jobson Vera,
a name shortened to Vera in 1964.
http://municipalidadvera.com -
Municipal website
http://www.infovera.com.ar/2013/10/vera-de-colonia-ferroviaria-a-municipio - InfoVera, 28 October 2013
The flag of Vera, inaugurated on 23 June
2012 during the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the foundation of
the town, was designed by Ariel Gastón Díaz, winner of a public contest
prescribed by Ordinance No. 1,547.
The flag is charged with an
Argentine sun, recalling 25 May 1810 [overthrowing of the colonial viceroy)
and 9 July 1816 [proclamation of independence]. The sun, both a reference
and an aspiration, represents the town.
Celestial blue and white
represent the national feeling.
The red half-disk completing the sun
represents the Cuña Boscosa (lit. the Woody Cradle), a woody area spreading
over the Provinces of Santa Fé, Chaco, Corrientes, and Formosa. Red is the
colour of the tannin of the willow-leaf red quebracho (Schinopsis balansae
Engl.).
The stars represent the district forming the department, established
along a railway today disappeared. Red is the colour of the Tannin Way.
http://municipalidadvera.com/simbolos-de-la-ciudad - Municipal
website
Ivan Sache, 15 December 2016