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Tabasco (Mexico)

Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco

Last modified: 2025-06-27 by daniel rentería
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Cravat Flag of Tabasco [De facto flag] [Design is an acceptable variant]
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Armorial flag adopted: 19 February 2020 by Decree 183, published in Supplement "K" to Official State Newspaper 8082.
Note: Cravat has not been adopted officially, but is common in government offices.
located by Daniel Rentería, 15 February 2025


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Presentation of Tabasco

  • Official name (Spanish): Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco
  • Official name (English): Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco
  • Short-form names: State of Tabasco; Tabasco
  • Location: Tabasco is located in the East of the country, being a gateway to the Yucatán Peninsula. It is good to note that outside the nation, Tabasco is commonly heard as the sauce which derives its name from peppers named as such (in turn, named after the state). Maya ruins, most notably Comalcalco, are found here, as it was part of the Chontal Maya state; Maya culture is still present in the state to this day. The oil/natural gas industry, cattle-raising, agriculture, and fishing are some of the most common industries here. The state is mostly flat, with many swamps especially to the east (where the Pantanos de Centla are found). It borders the state of Chiapas (S), Veracruz (W), Campeche (NE), the independent nation of Guatemala (E), and borders the Gulf of Mexico (NW). The state is sometimes divided into the Grijalva region (West of the river), and the Usumacinta Region (East of the Grijalva River).
  • Area: 24 731 km2
  • Municipalities: 17
  • Population: 2 402 598 inhabitants (2020)
  • Capital: Villahermosa (833 907 inhabitants [2020])
  • Statehood: 29 January 1824
  • Flag adopted: No official flag has been adopted.
  • Arms adopted: Decree 247 establishing the Law on the Characteristics and Use of the Arms of the State of Tabasco, published on 15 December 2012. Previous dispositions: Royal Decree of 1598 by King Philip II to Villa Hermosa de San Juan Bautista (from which the state derives its coat of arms).

Sources: INEGI, Wikipedia


Armorial flag

The State of Tabasco has officially adopted an armorial flag on 19 February 2020 by Decree 183, published in Supplement "K" to Official State Newspaper 8082. Officially, the State Flag is just another way of showing the State Coat of Arms. Note that its design is not regulated. Notes: Common usage (especially with the Government) depicts red tassels on the ribbon. According to Articles 11 and 12 of the Law on the Characteristics and Use of the Shield of Tabasco:

ARTICLE 12. The Powers of the State and the Ayuntamientos or Municipal Councils shall regulate and promote the delivery to public institutions, as well as the use by (sic) private incorporated institutions, of the State, in its mode of being a flag.

ARTICLE 12. Individuals can use, in flag mode the Shield, in their vehicles and exhibit it in their places of residence or work. In any case, individuals shall observe the due respect which corresponds to this symbol, in agreement to what is posted by the present Law and its regulatory provisions.

Daniel Rentería, 27 June 2025


Coat of arms

Coat of arms of Tabasco
Image from:
Wikimedia Commons
Reported by Daniel Rentería, 15 February 2025

Decree 247 established the Law on the Characteristics and Use of the Arms of the State of Tabasco, published on 15 December 2012 and reformed on 19 February 2020. Previously there was the Royal Decree of 1598 by King Philip II to Villa Hermosa de San Juan Bautista (from which the state directly derives its own coat of arms). Description according to Article 4 of the Law on the Characteristics and Use of the Shield of the State of Tabasco:

I. In the upper-right quadrant, castle of gold in a field of gules;
II. In the lower-left quadrant, a rampant lion in gold and crowned in a field of gules;
III. In the upper-left quadrant, armed hand with bracer, holding a sword in a field of silver; and
IV. In the lower-right quadrant, Indian girl feathered with the chest uncovered and her bouquet of flowers in each hand in a field of silver.

In the center, superimposed in the union of the four quadrants, a shield of oval form, in which it appears the bust of the "Virgin Mary", crowned in gold in a field of silver. To the dexter and sinister two columns sustaining in each one its world in azure charged with a cross, with the legend "Plus Ultra".

At the crest, the closed royal crown which is a circle of gold, set with precious stones, composed of eight flower heads of acanthus leaves in gold, five visible and from which emerge diadems summed with pearls that converge the world of azure bearing its semimeridian and equator of gold, summed by a cross of gold. The crown is lined in gules.

Daniel Rentería, 15 February 2025


Government flag

[Tabasco government flag]
by Daniel Rentería, 15 February 2025 using
image
image: [1] from tabascohoy.com


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