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Flag of Bohonal de Ibor - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 March 2020
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The municipality of Bohonal de Ibor (494 inhabitants in 2016, 6,460 ha; municipal website) is located 110 km northeast of Cáceres and 20 km southeast of Navalmoral de la Mata, on the border with Castilla-La Mancha (Province of Toledo).
Bohonal appears to have been named for the numerous watercourses and ponds located on the municipal territory. The name of river Ibor was subsequently added to Bohonal.
The Neolithic settlement of the area is evidenced by serveral megaliths, such as the Gambute dolmen, locally known as the Three Posts' Dolmen, since it was used as a territorial limit between Bohonal de Ibor, Peraleda de San Román and Castañar de Ibor.
Bohonal was subsequently incorporated to Talavera la Vieja (today flooded by Lake Valdecañas). In 1576, the villagers recognized the ownership of the land to the Count of Peñaranda. The land was eventually sold in 1855 by the municipality but the sale was cancelled in 1872 by the Supreme Court. The sharing of the land, reactivated in 1919, was completed in 1930 only.
The estabishment in the 1960s of Lake Valdecañas caused the suppression of the municipality of Talavera la Vieja and incorporation of part of its territory to Bohonal. The ruins of the Roman town of Agustobriga, locally known as the Marbles, were transferred stone by stone on a small hill dominating Bohonal.
Ivan Sache, 19 March 2020
The flag (photo) and arms of Bohonal de Ibor, adopted on 27 June 1994 and 10 January 1995 by the Municipal Council and validated on 8 November 1994 and 7 March 1995 by the Assessing Council of Honors and Distinctions of the Government of Extremadura, are prescribed by an Order issued on 17 April 1995 by the Government of Extremadura and published on 20 April 1995 in the official gazette of Extremadura, No. 46, pp. 1,466-1,467 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3. Made of three horizontal stripes each in proportions 1/3, the lower and the upper stripes, white, the central stripe, blue. Charged in the center with the municipal coat of arms in full colors.
Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Argent a fess wavy azure, 2. Azure a steeple argent. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed.
The steeple represents the St. Bartolomew parish church, erected at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. The tower was added in the 1920s.
[Municipal website]
Ivan Sache, 19 March 2020