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It appears that San Luis R.C. has no flag. I have spent possibly an hour searching to no avail; in-person I haven't seen one either.
Daniel Rentería, 15 September 2024
by Daniel Rentería, 15 September 2024.
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Emblem from Wikimedia Commons
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The coat of arms of San Luis Río Colorado was adopted in 1989, being created by city historian and professor Hermes Flores Navarro, who created the motto and original coat of arms in 1975. Its description, according to its Regulation of Police and Government:
The coat of arms is described in the following manner: Desert and fertility of the Colorado River are the representative elements of the coat of arms of San Luis Río Colorado. The aspects of the regional economy are also included, which are all the agricultural products cultivated here. They complement the conjoined books which represent cultural development, and in its background industrial development in process. A symbol of the desert is the saguaro, located behind the elements of the economy. The coat of arms is a visual image to the East, the cardinal point where the sun rises; in the background the narrow mountain range is bordered by the dunes of the desert. A boundary line which separates us from the State of Arizona, and in the very left it culminates with a bridge over the Colorado River. A highway to the other side communicates with the rest of the Mexican Republic.
The Colorado River slithers from its origin, located in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S., down to the West where afterwards it directs its path to the South to deposit its waters into the Gulf of California. In the upper part of the coat of arms, the phrase is written: "EL TRIUNFO ES EL PREMIO DEL ESFUERZO" [Triumph is the reward of effort]; this was the motto selected during the contest for the municipal coat of arms in 1975, and alludes to the effort of the pioneers to triumph in this inhospitable desert.
In the upper part, the name of San Luis R.C., Sonora, is marked in a ribbon as used in coats of arms from past times.
It should be noted that in the past decade, the coat of arms was modernized; the modernization added two additional ribbons, one for each part of the city's name
and one for the state located below the shield.
Daniel Rentería, 15 September 2024
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As we can see at Facebook, San Luis Río Colorado adopted its first coat of arms in 1975, which was designed by city historian and professor Hermes Flores Navarro. It depicts the mountains
found in the municipality with the sun rising in between them. A great contrast is shown; on the right side, one saguaro with flowers and another without and the sand dunes of the Altar Desert;
to the left, the farmlands of the San Luis Valley on the banks of the Colorado River, where a toll bridge cuts across, connecting Sonora to Baja California. The highway cuts across the symbol into
Baja California. In the distance, a dam can be seen. At the bottom of the symbol, cotton, wheat, and corn are seen, staples of the San Luis Valley. The motto, on a ribbon, was also created by the
professor, reading "EL TRIUNFO ES EL PREMIO DEL ESFUERZO" [Triumph is the reward of effort], which remembers that the pioneers worked hard to tame the land, triumphing in the fact that
they managed to form a valley filled with cropland and a large city in an inhospitable desert. Above is a ribbon, reading "SAN LUIS R.C., SON."
Daniel Rentería, 15 September 2024
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