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image by António Martins, 14 Dec 2025
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This municipality was created in 1994, already in Cabo Verde’s
Second Republic (and for that reason there is no colonial era equivalent of
the municipal flag).
António Martins, 20 Dec 2025
The flag of the Municipality of Sao Domingos is white (or maybe a little
creamish) with municipal emblem on it and a thin brown border line all around,
but not quite to the edge. (There are no good photos of it at
municipal Facebook
page. But, luckily, I have in my files some
older saved photo of the flag that shows details.)
Valentin Poposki, 02 Jun 2024
The one photo of the actual flag, with its
maroon orle (a unique style of background among Caboverdean
municipals), doesn’t show the upper part, so we don’t know whether
maroon or green chain links (or either) are shown on actual
flags.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2025
Centered on the white background, a usual modern Caboverdean municipal emblem:
A disc with specific contents surrounded by ten yellow
stars, a chain segment with a number links (three, in this case), and the name
of the municipality on a scroll accompaning the lower side of the disc. In this
case, the disc is edged by a maroon outer orle (i.e., with a white /
transparent gap), the stars are amber (visible contrast on white background;
without black edging), the stars are in the usual two groups of five flanking
the chain — which is placed at the apex position, and the scroll —
edged maroon and filled amber, with dark blue text set in condensed bold
serifless capitals — is of the same style as those of
Porto Novo,
Santa Catarina (Santiago), and
Tarrafal (Santiago)
— a length of fishnet hung drying from two poles, tastefully stylized.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2025
The lettering "Câmara Municipal de" preceding the toponym is likely
as incorrectly used here as those few cases in
Portugal, since the emblem should symbolize the municipality as a whole, not
only the executive
of its government.
António Martins, 20 Dec 2025
![[flag]](../images/c/cv-75v.gif)
image by António Martins, 15 Dec 2025
The same exact design but with green chain
links in the emblem, instead of maroon, as it is also used some times.
António Martins, 15 Dec 2025
At the official
municipal website, and some examples:
2025,
2019,
2014.
It seems that it’s easier to find these in green, matching those of
most other Caboverdean municipalities, than its
maroon version; thus atypically colored, I presume, to match the specific design
of this one municipal emblem. That version is however not less official, as can
be presumed from its proeminent use in the municipal government’s
Facebook presence.
António Martins, 15 Dec 2025 and 16 Dec 2025
The shade of green used for the links seems to be light.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2025
![[emblem]](../images/c/cv-75).gif)
image by António Martins, 16 Dec 2025 |
(source)
This is a usual modern Caboverdean municipal emblem:
The disc shows a stylized landscape showing a church belltower with
crosstopped belfry and a simple-gable house annex on the far side of a
water stream (stylized wavy stripes suggest flow) in foreground, all
against a mountain skyline — the whole in subtle pastel tones: lilac
mountain, light blue sky, indigo bluidings with pink accents (tower
insides, roof and wall edges), and five waves in bright light blue with
four background gaps in pale blue. The whole is vertically split in two
halves, the sinister one having overall a transparency layer (showing
the underlying landscape in tones even more suble and pastel) and
overall on it a very large white C-clef with heavy maroon dropshadow
cast from dexter, slightly extending past the edge of the disc itself,
reaching the midline of the gap between it and the orle.
António Martins, 16 Dec 2025
This is not the only one among the 22 municipal emblems
of Cabo Verde to show musical symbols: See, for one,
mun. São Vicente.
António Martins, 20 Dec 2025
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