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by Daniel Rentería, 9 July 2022.
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El Sol de Hermosillo
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Hermosillo uses a municipal flag which is white with the municipal coat of arms centered upon it.
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According to https://www.la-chicharra.com/?p=9125:
After the second half of the late 19th century, Hermosillo's council used a seal with a ribbon reading "REPÚBLICA MEXICANA" above; the inside simply had the council and state name, with the design as the national eagle. The ribbon was dropped by 1934, and the words "ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS" were placed around the eagle.
In 1960, Municipal President César Gándara Laborín decided there should be a municipal coat of arms. He was inspired by the historian Gilberto Escobosa Gámez, who during a visit to Orizaba realized it would be a good idea for Hermosillo to have one like other municipalities in the Republic.
The state government under Álvaro Obregón Tapia and the municipal council proposed to the city's rotary club to call for a competition for the design of a coat of arms of
Hermosillo. The competition was posted in El Imparcial on 12 March 1960. The winners were announced on 30 April as the architect Felipe N. Ortega and Dr. José Jiménez
Cervantes. However, it wasn't until 4 December 1961 that the coat of arms was adopted by the council officially; by then, Luis Encinas Johnson was governor and Eduardo Loustaunau Ruiz
municipal president, who accompanied the rotary club president Alberto Gutiérrez García that day to present it to the council.
The coat of arms is designed in a Spanish blazon divided into quarters, and in the upper central part the two marine blue stripes stand out at 45 degrees, with wavy lines colored yellow at their centers, converging to the center of the engraving, which symbolize the rivers Sonora and San Miguel, whose confluence is presented to the west of the city; this is where, on 18 May 1700, the Holy Trinity of Pitiquin was founded, a village of Pima Indians which was the origin of the city of Hermosillo. Pitiquin or Pitic signify in the Pima language "place surrounded by rivers" or "place where the rivers join".
In the upper-central partition, the tower of the Palace of Government can be seen, seat of the political powers of the State, with the Cerro de la Campana at the background, the trait that best symbolizes the city, and above the tower the initials J.G., which signify Jesús García, the hero of Nacozari and humanity and the most clear child known nationally and globally which Hermosillo has given.
In the upper-right partition are the towers of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, which has an effigy of Saint Augustine, the principal promoter of the cult to the Assumption of Mary; and in the upper-left partition the building of the Museum and Library of the University of Sonora, which represents religion and the cultural capital of the State.
In the lower-left partition, seven orange fruits are seen which represent the motto "La ciudad de los naranjos" with which Hermosillo is known starting from the start of the 20th century for the great production of that fruit.
In the lower-right partition appears seven bunches or ears of wheat, which represent the agricultural wealth of the Costa de Hermosillo land.
It is necessary to note that the white of the lower partitions on the left and right represent the whiteness of the Hermosillense cotton.
To the center is a white vertical stripe which divides the lower section, with the wavy line also vertical and colored orange in its center, representing the subterranean current of waters from the rivers which converge at our city, discharging its waters in the aquifer of the Costa de Hermosillo, represented in the lower part in marine blue color and two wavy horizontal lines in orange, which for centuries was hidden as a force of nature, and giving thanks to the spirit of the work of our men of the fields, it is extracted through the wells which make the water go out to irrigate the agricultural empire of the Costa de Hermosillo. [Wikipedia says it depicts the Abelardo L. Rodríguez dam.]
The colors orange and yellow represent the characteristic color of our beautiful scarlet sunsets.
Daniel Rentería, 27 October 2024
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