San Joaquín, Querétaro (Mexico)

Last modified: 2025-07-18 by daniel rentería
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by Daniel Rentería, 9 July 2025, using coat of arms at Plan de Desarrollo
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• Flag
• Coat of Arms

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• Querétaro (Mexico)
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Flag

The flag of San Joaquín is white with its coat of arms centered upon it; the council told me it was adopted around the same time as the coat of arms, which is not true as it uses a more modern version of the coat of arms, probably from the last decade.
Daniel Rentería, 9 July 2025

Coat of Arms

from Plan de Desarrollo

The coat of arms was adopted in 1991 under Municipal President Timoteo Martínez Pérez (1991-1994), being adopted through a call for submissions. It was designed by Juan Uriel Martínez Camacho, with some modifications being made by the jury. Description as provided by the council (translated):

The shield of San Joaquín appears adorned in its edges by many fretworks in advocation to Quezalcóatl.
In the upper crest under the motto [TRADICION Y RAICES SIMBOLO DE PROGRESO; Tradition and Roots, Symbol of Progress], a rock of mineral processing appears seated over a mural built of slabs, typical of our pre-Hispanic constructions [over it an open book for education]; the same one that appears inside the shield with the glorious top of the pyramid of Ranas II, watchtower and astronomical observatory of our mountain range ancestors [two tree trunks are visible by it]. In the central part appears a car of haulage which gives testimony to our mining activity; and finally it places [under the cart] the testimony of its forest [5 trees], mining [cave and tracks], fruit [apple tree], and tourist activity, highlighting the Huapango Cathedral with the presence of the Huastec violin, properly of our National Contest of Huapango Dance, which annually is celebrated in the month of April in San Joaquín. [Going behind the shield is a bow and an arrow crossed together, symbolizing the pre-Hispanic era; at the bottom are two leaves with a yellow flower in the center, symbol of its flora].
Daniel Rentería, 9 July 2025

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