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![[Flag of Nova Aurora, PR (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-pr-232.gif)
image by Dirk Schönberger,
3 September 2011Horizontally divided blue over green, with a rising golden sun with wavy rays.
Official website at
http://www.novaaurora.pr.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 3 September 2011
The municipality of Nova Aurora (11,871 inhabitants in 2010; 474 ha) is located
in western Paraná, 570 km of Curitiba. Nova Aurora was settled in the 1940s
during the "March to the West" campaign promoted by President of the
Republic Getúlio Vargas (1882-1954; President, 1930-1945; 1951-1954). The
name of the place (lit., "New Dawn") was coined in the early 1950s by Father
Luiz Bernardes, parish priest of Corbélia, during the celebration of a mass.
The District of New Aurora was established by State Law No. 177 of 26
September 1961. The municipality of Nova Aurora was established by State Law
No. 5,643 of 25 September 1967, from parts of the municipalities of Cascavel
and Formosa do Oeste, and inaugurated on 11 December 1968.
The flag of
Aurora, 14 units x 20 units in size, is divided into two unequal horizontal
stripes. The upper, bigger stripe is sky blue with a golden-yellow rising
sun, while the lower, smaller stripe is spring green. The sun, centered, has
16 rays, in turn straight and wavy. The upper stripe represents the sky,
while the rising sun symbolizes a new dawn ("nova aurora"), the namesake of
the municipality. The green stripe symbolizes the big green regions today
nearly completely cropped with soybeans, the main source of income of the
local municipalities. Construction details are given, but they are hardly
intelligible since the matching construction sheet is not shown.
The
flag is indeed a banner of the municipal arms, chief, crown, supporters and
scroll excluded.
http://www.novaaurora.pr.gov.br/artigos/lista_artigo.php?id=131
Ivan Sache,
20 February 2012