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image by Dirk Schönberger,
1 February 2011
Source: based on
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marabá
A green flag with two yellow diagonal bands and a white star.
Official website at
http://www.maraba.pa.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 1
February 2011
image by Dirk Schönberger,
1 February 2011
Source: based on
http://www.cnm.org.br/municipio/hino_brasao.asp?iIdMun=100115067
This variant appears to be the same flag, but upside down.
I can understand how if this variant is correct, people might think it should
be depicted as reversed. The other way around I'm not so sure. So I went and had
a look at their site. At first, I thought we had two groups here:
Group 1,
star dexter or at the hoist:
1
http://www.maraba.pa.gov.br/superintendente-da-sudam-veio-a-maraba,
2
http://www.maraba.pa.gov.br/semed-promove-desfiles-civicos-na-cidade-e-zona-rural.
Group 2: star sinister
3
http://www.maraba.pa.gov.br/sao-felix-comemora-semana-da-patria,
4
http://www.maraba.pa.gov.br/pmm-realiza-desfile-da-semana-da-patria-no-sao-felix
1 again (the painting).
But just below 4 on the same page is also
5 image:
http://www.maraba.pa.gov.br/adm/auxi/FCKeditor/image/Boletim%202010/Foto_Boletim%20158_Desfile%20no%20S%C3%A3o%20F%C3%A9lix%20%202_Markus.jpg.
There we can see the hoist of the flag, and it turns out this too is the
sinister.
Combined with the flags apparently intentionally presented
dexter and therefore showing the sinister side in 2, my guess would be that we
should consider this a sinister hoist with the star at the hoist, with one point
pointing straight up. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that the design might
have been created with a hoist triangle for aesthetic reasons, but that it's a
locational flag that then requires a sinister hoist to be accurate.
It
does however leave:
Group 3: star sinister pointing down
6
http://www.maraba.pa.gov.br/jogos-da-castanha-inovam-na-abertura, image
here.
Under the assumption above, this becomes a flag upside down. That
may be an easy mistake to make, I guess, once you have the flag spread out with
dexter hoist and know you have to turn it 180 degrees to get it right. I'd
assume 66a is a similar case.
Going to
http://www.maplandia.com/brazil/para/maraba/maraba does show a topography
that more or less matches the flag in sinister hoist.
Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 1 February 2011
