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by Daniel Rentería, 9 July 2025, using coat of arms at cadereytademontes.gob.mx
image: [1] from libertaddepalabra.mx and
image: [2] from libertaddepalabra.mx
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The council informed me their municipal flag was adopted in the 2021-2024 term under Municipal President Rene Mejía Montoya. It is white with the municipal coat of arms centered upon it.
Daniel Rentería, 9 July 2025
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image from cadereytademontes.gob.mx
In the year 2000, Olvera Muñoz proposed an initiative to adopt a municipal coat of arms, which the State Legislature asked for in 1987 but it was not carried out in this municipality. It was not until 2002, however, that the coat of arms was officially adopted. A call for submissions was held by the Municipal Council, in which Saúl Hernández emerged as the winner, but it was modified using the ideas from other contestants. The jury was composed of institutions like the INAH and the Autonomous University of Querétaro. An official description is contained in the Regulation of Police and Municipal Government in Article 7, but I have decided to put the description into my own words here:
The coat of arms is composed of rolls on its edges. Crowning it at the top is an agave plant for its industry. Just under this is the form of a symmetrical pyramid, symbolic of the pre-Hispanic times of Cadereyta de Montes. The border of the shield reads "CADEREYTA" at the top and "DE MONTES" at the bottom, corresponding to the facade of a principal plaza church. The shield is divided into three sections. The upper-left section depicts a potter turning a clay vase and is surrounded by other vases, representing the artisanry and work part of the local cultural heritage; the arches of El Pilancón appear in the background, old work representative of the architecture of Cadereyta. The upper-right section depicts, in the front, an open book reading the year 1640 (the year of its foundation), representing education as a pillar of development. A personal computer and a satellite dish (over the El Pilancón hill with a path leading to it; not the arches) are symbols of technology working to service people and the municipality of today. The lower section depicts a ploughed field for agriculture, with the Mintehé Hill to the background along with rays of the morning sun. In the front is a family of two adults and two children, of a working family; the man carries a shamati (or xamati) sombrero while the woman has a traditional regional outfit. They walk towards the future.
Daniel Rentería, 9 July 2025
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