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image by Zachary Harden, Jaume Ollé and Antonio Martins, 8 February 2018
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State Flag, Coast-Guard Ensign and President of the republic
(-SW/-S- 3:5) - The five-striped flag of
blue-white-red-white-blue, the red stripe being double
width of each the other four. Offset to the hoist in the red
stripe on a white oval disk is set the coat of arms. The construction
details beside the figure set the horizontal offset of the oval
as 3:7 (i.e. size from hoist to the oval's vertical axis : size
from the axis to fly). The oval size seems to be (as measured
from the image) as 1.75:1.5, using the same unit as above (which
is the same that give vertical dimensions of the flag as
1+1+2+1+1, and therefore being 1/6 of the hoist). In any case -
are the oval details determined by any law? I suspect that
they may not be.
I used Jaume's image of the coat of arms as a clipart to make this images.
Željko Heimer, 1 June 2001
image by Zachary Harden, Jaume Ollé and Antonio Martins, 8 February 2018
Zachary Harden, Jaume Ollé and Antonio Martins, 8 February 2018
I discovered from the Coast Rica Olympic Committee's Facebook page that there
is a variant of the state flag. This version omits the oval around the arms and
enlarges the arms. The photo can be seen at
https://www.facebook.com/con.costarica/posts/1784233471596366. This is not
the first image I saw of the oval-less flag; there is a photo from 2015 that
shows the flag without the oval, yet the size of the arms are about the same.
This can be seen at
http://www.migracion.go.cr/comunicacion/fotografias/celebracion%2015%20de%20setiembre%202015/DSC09187.JPG.
Željko Heimer asked on 1 June 2001 "In any case - are the oval details
determined by any law? I suspect that they may not be. " I can confirm that the
oval details are determined by law...somewhat. In Article 4 of "LEY QUE REGULA
USO SÍMBOLOS NACIONALES - PABELLÓN Y ESCUDO – Ley n.° 18 del 27 de noviembre de
1906 " there is a specification on how big the flag should be, along with the
oval. It reads "The flag that will be hosted on the public buildings indicated
in Article 2, will measure two meters long by one meter, twenty centimeters wide
and will be stamped in colors with the National Coat of Arms, in the red belt,
inside a white ellipse of thirty centimeters in its major axis by twenty in the
minor, whose center will be sixty centimeters from the end of the side that is
attached to the pole." (As amended by Law No. 60 of June 13, 1934, and by
Article 1 of Law No. 3429 of October 21, 1964). Law No. 60 of June 13, 1934,
determined the sizes of the flag used on public buildings, along with military
standards and for harbormasters.
Zachary Harden, 8 February
2018
Note that in the version with enlarged arms, there is a white outline around
the arms, while in the version without enlarging, there seems to be no such
outline.
Tomislav Todorovic, 8 February 2018
The latest law regulating the national symbols of Costa Rica, dates from 26
June, 2007 and is called: Ley de Símbolos Patrios y Valores Cívicos, Expediente
Nº 16.678.
Article 27 derogates all previous laws dealing with the
symbols, and thus flag. It reads:
“Artículo 27: Derógase la Ley Nº 18, de 27
de noviembre de 1906, y la Ley Nº 550, de 10 de octubre de 1949 y sus reformas.”
Article 7 describes the flags of the country as follows:
“Artículo 7: La
Bandera Nacional
La Bandera Nacional de la República será tricolor y formada
por cinco franjas colocadas horizontalmente en este orden: una roja en el centro,
una blanca a cada lado de la roja y una azul en el extremo superior e inferior.
Las franjas blancas y azules serán de igual anchura, la roja doble ancho.
Se conocerá como Pabellón Nacional el símbolo patrio conformado por la
Bandera Nacional y que lleva en su centro el Escudo Nacional.”
As you can
read the white circle or ellipse is not mentioned anymore. This may lead to the
conclusion that the correct, official state flag of Costa Rica is the one with
just the coat of arms in the centre.
Jos Poels, 11 February 2018
image by BlinxCat, 17 April
2022
This Antique Costa Rican State flag I purchased in a set of flags that got
made around the 1970s. What is interesting is the flag's emblem is in a sphere
instead of the "oval", not only that but the emblem is clearly incomplete being
only gold-white-grey instead of being fully colored in.
BlinxCat, 17
April 2022
images by Eugene Ipavec, Jaume Ollé, Francisco
Gregoric and António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 August
2006
Very recently, the newly elected President of Costa Rica
Óscar Arias took oath as the new President of his country. There is
a picture at
www.eltiempo.com
in which he can be seen wearing the presidential sash, which is
the flag of Costa Rica plus the Coat of Arms
in a diagonal way.
Source: El Tiempo, August 3rd, 2006 online edition.
E.R., 11 August 2006
