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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 6 October 2001
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Officially adopted: 1 January 2020, by municipal order creates the Código de Gobierno Municipal de Guadalajara (Municipal Government Code of Guadalajara) published on 29 November 2019.
In use since early 1800.
See also:
Guadalajara is a city located West of Mexico in the Atemajac valley,
between the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Pacific coast, and the
Chapala lowlands.
Guadalajara is the capital city of both the the same-named municipality and
the State of Jalisco. It is an important cultural and administrative center founded in 1532
by Spaniard Nuño de Guzmán. Its main industries are fur, chemical, textile,automotive,
among others.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 6 October 2001.
Guadalajara was definitively founded (meaning that settled in the place it currently occupies), in 1542.
Guadalajara was first placed in the region of Nochistlán (1532), Tonalá valley (1533), then Tlacotán, a former
Indian village (1535), to be definitively settled in the Valley of Atemajac in the bank of the Santiago River on
February 14, 1542.
To improve the juridical situation of Guadalajara, King Charles V granted the town the status of city and
a coat of arms. This was on November 8, 1539. The decree was officially proclaimed on August 10, 1542, that
is, six months after the city was definitively placed in the Valley of Atemajac.
Finally, Guadalajara was not the capital of the Kingdom of New Galicia but until March 10, 1560, by official
cédula (decree).
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 5 April 2005.
The first news of the existence of a flag in the state of Jalisco
came to me through a young Mexican vexilologist who gave me
the colours and said me that the flag could be seen in Guadalajara
quite often. Nevertheless, I believe, that contradictory news were mixed,
on the one hand the existence of a flag project with blue and
yellow colours and on the other hand the exhibition of a flag
with these colours as local flag of the city of Guadalajara,
that apparently was based on the supposed colours of the
Kingdom of Nueva Galicia.
Jaume Ollé, Flag Report 13, 9 May 2001.
In my last trip to Guadalajara I found that the city has a flag for its own as already
reported by Mr. Jaume Ollé in Flag Report 13.
Unfortunatelly I could nof find any legal statement about it.
The flag is divided horizontaly into three stripes: blue, yellow (gold), blue.
The yellow stripe fills 50% of the flag. The coat of arms in the center.
The are variants (specially "desk of table flags" and pennants showing equal-sized stripes).
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 8 December 2004.
Which transalated is:La forma son tres bandas horizontales, en color azul marino la superior e inferior y en oro la central; en la siguiente disposición: superior 3/10, central o media 4/10 e inferior 3/10, todas con respecto a la horizontal base. Al centro de la bandera total queda, sobre la banda color oro el Escudo de Armas, otorgado por Carlos I de España y V de Alemania a la Ciudad de Guadalajara y Reino de Nueva Galicia el 8 de noviembre de 1539, de cuya heráldica se toman los colores y el escudo mismo.
The flag has three horizontal stripes dark blue the upper and the lower ones, and golden the central one, with the following dimensions respecting the height: 3/10 the upper and lower stripes and 4/10 the middle one. In the center of the flag on the golden stripe are the city's arms, granted by Charles I of Spain and V of Germany to the City of Guadalajara and Kingdom of New Galicia on 8 November 1539, from which are taken the colors.
From:
Escritores de Jalisco (website desappeared).
Located by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 8 December 2004.
Although the flag has been in used since early 1800's, it was until 1 January 2020 when the flag was officially adopted by municipal order creates the Código de Gobierno Municipal de Guadalajara (Municipal Government Code of Guadalajara) published on 29 November 2019 in the Municipal Gazette. According the code, the flag is described in the following terms:
Artículo 3. La bandera municipal consta de tres franjas horizontales, azul, amarillo y azul respectivamente, y en la parte central de la barra amarilla el escudo de armas.
Artículo 4. Los colores oficiales del municipio son azul, con longitud de onda entre cuatrocientos sesenta y cuatrocientos ochenta y dos nanómetros; y amarillo, con longitud de onda entre quinientos setenta y cuatro y quinientos setenta y siete nanómetros.
Which translated is:
Article 3. The municipal flag consists of three horizontal stripes in blue, yellow and blue, respectively and, in the central part of the yellow stripe is the coat of arms.
Article 4. The municipal official colors are blue with a wavelength between 460 and 482 nanometers, and yellow with a wavelength between 574 and 577 nanometers.
The code also establishes that the coat of arms, colors and flag can be modified only by the municipal council (article 5)
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 23 July 2022.
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The coat of arms was granted to the City of Guadalajara by H.M. King Carlos V in 1542.
Jesús Aceves, 14 Nov 1998.
This coat of arms was granted to
the city of Guadalajara by royal
decree of H.M. King Carlos V in 1542,
the year the city was founded. Truly
unprecedented, as it was not in the
policy of the Crown to give coats of
arms to cities in the New World, it
was done probably because rather than
being a conquered city, it was one
that was founded anew by and for
Spaniards. We can see in the centre,
a tree with two lions climing it, resembling
those of
Madrid.
Yet, rather than a single bear
climbing up a tree, we see two lions.
This is no surprise, as the New World
was colonised out of Andalucía. And
just like the Andalusian dialect was
the one taken to the New World, so it
was shown in the influence of this
Coat of Arms, as
Andalucía's
has two lions, those were put in place
of the bear. Thus, we can see the
influence of both Castilla and
Andalucía in Guadalajara.
Jesús Aceves, 14 Nov 1998.
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 8 December 2004
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 8 December 2004
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The following flags are/were to be flown to represent either Guadalajara or Jalisco.
They used to be flown in public buildings places in Guadalajara.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 24 March 2014.
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 May 2011
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 February 2007
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 22 February 2007
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