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![[Mercedes flag]](../images/a/ar-w-me.gif)
image by António Martins, 06 Jan 2003
The flag is vertically divided white hoist and dark blue fly, with an
emblem on the centre of the white part.
Olivier Touzeau, 09 Dec 2001
The flag was elected and adopted after a contest in 1995. The winning
flag was designed by Gabriel “Cani” Zarate a very important
plastic artist from Mercedes. The emblem was designed
exclusively for the flag.
Francisco Gregoric, 08 Jan 2004 and 10 Jan 2004
![[Mercedes flag detail]](../images/a/ar-w-me).gif)
image
by António Martins, 06 Jan 2003
The emblem on the Mercedes flag was designed exclusively for it. (The
municipal emblem of Mercedes is different.) It has the shape of a famous
rock of the zone known as Itá Pucú (something like
«ee-tah poo-koo»), that means "high rock" in guarani.
Inside the emblem, there are a stream, the Paiubre
(a small river in Mercedes Municipality) and a tree that is a
Ñandubay (a tree from the region).
Francisco Gregoric, 08 Jan 2004 and 10 Jan 2004
The flag of Mercedes is prescribed by Ordinance No. 324/95.
The flag is vertically divided white-blue, the national colours, with
an emblem in the centre of the white part.
The same source gives additional details to the description of the
emblem.
The branches of the tree reach the libertarian sky, while its roots
deeply stuck in the original soil keep the heritage of our ancestors.
The river is guitar-shaped, symbolizing culture and dreams; the green
field represents rice cultivation.
The shade of the blue part of the flag seems to vary between light (as
on the national flag) and dark blue, as originally reported by Olivier Touzeau.
Ivan Sache, 14 apr 2013