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Tierralta (Cordoba, Colombia)

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 February 2026

Overview

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Overview

The flag of the Municipality of Tierralta in Department of Cordoba, Colombia, is presented at www.cordoba.gov.co.
Valentin Poposki, 13 April 2006

It is a horizontal equal triband of dark blue over white over dark green with an amber four pointed star on center of the white stripe. The original image shows the flag as a fairly oblong quadrangle, at 184x300 px, but the geometry of the star suggests that this maybe an artifactual distorsion: the four concave angles of the star form a 51×61 rectangle (once the flag cloth is expanded to 216px high), instead of a perfect square. Supposing that the star is meant to be symmetric on both axes, horizontal and vertical, then squeezing the whole back yields a quite squat overall ratio, close to 3:4.

The source webpage of the original image is part of the official website of dep. Córdoba; it was taken offline in 2008, shortly after Vanja's report, and the current website doesn't seem to have a description/presentation page for each municipality, as it did before.

In Wikimedia Commons a vectorial image of a related flag is shown at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tierralta_(C%C3%B3rdoba).svg (redrawn by user Milenioscuro), since late 2012, whence it illustrates several Wikipedias. It is captioned and filenamed as the *the* flag of Tierralta but, even though is references FotW-ws as its only source, the horizontal orientation of the stripes is swapped, showing green at the top and blue at the bottom. The overall ratio is 2:3 and the star itself is shown with a pronounced horizontal stretch.

The current official website is rife with such anamorphic distortions of all kinds of images, including photos, so any bets are off: There is a page about the municipal symbols that shows the same flag image with green on top and even more stretch (image) — its inscribed quadrangle is 21:33 (~0.636), which is even more oblong than the Wikimedia Commons image (32:42x0.762), and *that* is in turn more oblong than the original image (51:61x0.836) reported by Vanja; as said, the image I sent has it as 1:1 (=1.000).

The image in the new official municipal website was added in mid-2024, guessing from https://who.is/dns/tierralta-cordoba.gov.co. It uses the same exact RGB values as the Wikimedia Commons image, indicating that it was nabbed from there, which got it from FotW-ws (correcting the order of the stripes), which got it from the department website (where the stripes were originally swapped).

So, is this star really horizontally oblong, or is that an unwanted artifact, as I presume? Indeed what is the intended overall ratio of this flag? And why was it upside down in the 2006 official webpage?

The official quasi-heraldic emblem of the municipality shown at https://www.tierralta-cordoba.gov.co/SiteAssets/V2/images/escudo-tierralta.jpg answers one question and raises another. It has two draped municipal flags as supporters, with the green stripe on top and sporting, offset to the hoist, what seems to be one *five*-pointed star each! This is further suggested by the a logo used by the municipal administration which includes a flag-pattern medal ribbon banner (left-to-right: green, white, blue) with also a five point star, and also by the previously mentioned official website page about the mun. symbols captioning the flag image, that shows a four-pointed star, with "Estrella Color Amarillo de 5 Puntas": my command of Castillian is not really good, but I’m fairly
certain that "5" means "5" and not "4", as the shown in the image.

So, what does the municipal flag really look like? The Mayor’s office has only two indoor flags, Colombia and dep. Córdoba — both in a version that shows the arms aligned to the flag's diagonal. I could not find photos or other imagery of the actual flag in use.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 February 2026