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image by Jens Pattke, 29 October 2002
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Based on image from <www.pichincha.gov.ec>.
Falko Schmidt, 29 October 2002
According to the information available on the new Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province,
the name of the canton must be changed from Santo Domingo de los
Colorados to Santo Domingo de las Tsáchilas (while the name of
the capital of the canton remains Santo Domingo de los
Colorados).
However, no evidence backing such a change is presented.
The municipal website
(not updated yet since still presenting the canton as part of the
Province of Pichincha) shows on the top of its frontpage drawings
of the flag and coat of arms, which do not seem to have been
changed following the status and possible name change of the
canton.
The flag is shown behind the Mayor on a photograph available on
the municipal
website.
The symbols of Santo Domingo de los Colorados are no longer shown
on the website of the Province of Pichincha (which is logical).
The flag and arms are presented on the municipal website:
"The flag of the canton is made of a rectangle whose sides
are in proportions 2:3. This rectangle is divided in two
rectangle triangles, with opposed right angles. The division is
made by a diagonal descending from the upper left corner. The
upper triangle shall be red and means the Colorado Indian. The
colour of the lower triangle shall be dark green, meaning the
tropical vegetation.
In the middle of the flag is placed the coat of arms of Santo
Domingo."
"The coat of arms is made of an equilateral triangle with
curvilinear sides, symbolizing the balance of weather and
orography, the connexions between the regions and the unity of
the Ecuadorians, expressed in the physic natural environment of
the area and in the moral physionomy of the inhabitants.
The field of the shield with a base azure, the portrait of a
Colorado Indian and the background or recalls the country's
tricolore, meaning the affluency and the national feeling
expressed by the inhabitants of Santo Domingo.
The Colorado Indian, a milestone of the local history, is placed
in the middle of the shield, representing rebellion and
superaction. The dexter red and the sinister green borders
represents the jurisdisction's standard while the upper white
border recalls the snow and bears the writing 'Santo Domingo de
los Colorados' A plant of American bamboo in the base of the
shield suggests the soil fecundity and the subtrpoical power.
The torch with the colours of Pichincha blowin' in the wind,
crowning the shield, represents the pure and irreversible ideal
maintained by Santo Domingo [...]." <> The
image above should be changed to the 2:3 proportions, as
officially prescribed.
Ivan Sache, 21 October 2008
p-sdo.jpg)
image from <www.pichincha.gov.ec>,
located by Falko Schmidt, 29 October 2002
