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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 March 2018
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El Oro is a province in the southern coastal area on the
border with Peru. It belongs to Costa region. Capital is Machala.
eljko Heimer, 15 July 1996
Flag and Coat of Arms could be seen at www.explored.com.ec
.
Jarig Bakker, 26 January 2001
The El Oro Province (Oro = Gold) is the southernmost of
Ecuador's coastal provinces. It has been named that way because
of its historically important gold production. It is one of the
worlds major banana exporters. The capital is Machala. The
province is divided in 14 cantons and features a wide range of
attractions, such as the Jambelí Islands, the petrified forest
of the Puyango River, and the island of Santa Clara, to name a
few.
Jens Pattke, 3 October 2008
1) image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2016 (flag according to W. Smith (insecure))
I had a look in my sources. Smith 1975 [smi75c] shows the flag of El Oro
with no comment about it. Smith 1985 ([smi85],
the Spanish version of [smi80])
shows the same flag but with a footnote "There are doubts
concerning several of these flags". Alvarez et.al. 1986 [alv86], a South American source,
appears to have simply copied Smith 1975 and shows the flag with
no comment.
Maybe Smith reported some Ecuadorian flag which was spotted at El
Oro but was not the El Oro flag? Maybe that flag had some
relationship with the one I spotted (same flag, no canton,
lighter green) as Ecuadorian UFE?
Santiago Dotor, 29 January 2001
It is a 1:2 flag divided as an Ecuadorian / Colombian triband (2+1+1,
horizontal), the lower stripes being yellow over red and the upper one itself
divided vertically in two halves: the fly side being green and the hoist side
itself filled with the pattern of an Ecuadorian / Colombian triband, this time
in the usual colors of yellow over (dark) blue, over red.
António
Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2016
2) image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 October 2017
image from www.explored.com.ec, located by Jarig Bakker, 26 January 2001