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António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
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The flag was adopted by Decree Number 234, of July 2, 1970.
The flag consists of 17 equal horizontal stripes starting from
the top and finishing in the bottom with color green, and
overlapped by white, thus making it 9 green stripes and 8 white
stripes.
The Coat of Arms was created by Baronio Rojas and accepted
officially by Decree Number 164, 1956. Afterwards, on December 5,
1960 the Decree Number 389 was issued, adopting the Coat of Arms
with the letters DM (standing for Departamento de Meta)
Source: official
website of the Government of the Department of Meta.
E.R, 3 January 2008
Flag variants containing the coat of arms (of which there are more than one, after all), show varying versions of its colors and other elements, even considering only those seen in official context.
image by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
A 17-stripe flag with small arms at the upper hoist on a white roundel thinly edged in green; this roundel has a diameter of approx. 5 stripe widths, and is set off the hoist by 2 such units and off the top edge of the flag by one and a half.
This can be seen as artwork, available, e.g., at the official website
https://devx.meta.gov.co/media/logo/2024/04/16/bandera_1.png and at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bandera_del_meta.jpg; here the sun
is red and the sky is a amber-to-orange horizontal gradient. I did not find an
actual cloth flag in this pattern.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
image by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
A 17-stripe flag with small arms within
seal-like roundel centered on it. This roundel takes up the middle 5 stripes of
the flag, vertically; it has a green border, itself edged in amber and reads in
amber/golden sans serif capitals "DEPARTEMENTO" arched above and "DEL META"
below.
This one is seen in a photo
located by Paul
Bassinson, 31 July 2023, cropped from
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php of an official event. The coat of arms here has
a yellow sun and light blue sky, in yet another variant.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
image by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
Flag with centered arms applied directly on the 17-stripe background, as seen in
this online photo of an official event as a tabletop flaglet:
https://radionacional-v3.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/node/article/field_image/gobmeta.jpeg.
Here the arms takes up seven stripes vertically. It shows a yellow sun on
amber-to-orange horizontal gradient.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
met.gif)
image contributed by Felipe Carrillo, 17 May 2002
There seems to be some variation in the depiction and colorization of the
elements; compare with
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-prvtu6OofUw/UaZD3fIuEsI/AAAAAAAAAEs/NdedFhxKZjc/s1600/images.jpg.
The sky is yellow-to-red horizontal gradient in Felipe Carrillo's image but
plain red in this other depiction, causing the "D" in the monogram to be yellow
sintead of red (for contrast, one presumes), and likewise the dryland is solid
green, not dark-to-light gradient.
The latter colorization scheme was
used in the coat of arms image in
Wikimedia Commons, sourced from
an unavailable official webpage (http://www.meta.gov.co/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=1).
A very similar version, but in black-and-white and including a stylized
coronet or crest above the shield, among other differences, is now at
https://devx.meta.gov.co/media/logo/2024/05/06/LogoGoberMeta1.png
in the
same official website.
One thing that remains conspicuously unchanged in all these variations of the
coat of arms: The interesting supporters — two centaurs, each also holding a
lance beflagged with a simplified triband pennon, the one at dexter,
green-white-green, standing for Meta itself, the one at sinister,
yellow-blue-red, standing for Colombia.
image by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
In all variants I’ve seen, the three horizontal stripes converge to the tip
of the pennon, which is simply triangular and somewhat short (~3:5).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 January 2026
