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image by António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
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This municipality takes up roughly a third of the island
of Fogo, incl. most of its volcanic crater and shares the peak summit with
its northern neighbour Mosteiros mun. Comparing
previously
reported maps with current
ones it would seem that a sizable chunk of territory was added somewhen
in the late 2010s, including the municipal seat, town Cova Figueira.
António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
There is no colonial-era equivalent of this flag as this
municipality was created in 2005, already well in Cabo Verde’s Second
Republic — by dettaching one of the communes of mun.
São Filipe.
António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
The flag of the Municipality of Santa Catarina do Fogo is diagonally divided
in eight triangles (gyronny pattern) with municipal emblem in the center of it
(sources: photo showing flag in official indoors use
and official
Facebook page masthead).
Valentin Poposki, 02 Jun 2024
The official
Facebook page masthead interestingly shows both the national
and municipal flags side-by-side in a diagramatic orthographic view, evidencing
the slightly more oblong ratio of the former and its
slightly darker shade of blue (which could be due
to mere choice of flag clipart, but it’s still interesting); it also shows
the seal (albeit as watermark) and a detail view of the municipal emblem.
António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
The design of the flag is Portuguese-style
gyronny of eight, in yellow over blue. This is one of the three
municipal flags in Cabo Verde with this background
pattern — the others being São Vicente
and Maio, both blue over white.
António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
![[flag]](../images/c/cv-83).gif)
image by António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
The emblem is quasi-heraldic and can be blazoned as Celeste on a mound
Cendrée issuant from the flanks and from a base wavy Azure fimbriated
Celeste a goat statant Brunâtre horned Argent and in chief a grape bunch
Purple leaved Vert. On the flag, it is thinly edged in black (outside)
and white (inside). The emblem is completed by a chain of 4 green links
at its apex, flanked by the usual pair of 5-star arcs, and a scroll at
its bottom. The stars are edged black and of the same shade of yellow as
the background gyrons, and the scroll is white with a heavy black shadow
and forked ribbon tips, and reads in very small black serifed capitals
"Município de Santa Catarina do Fogo".
António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
The two shades of blue are apparent even when the emblem is depicted (as in
this edict)
in muted colors.
António Martins, 28 Dec 2025
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