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image by Ivan Sache,
4 August 2020
The municipality of São Francisco de Assis (19,258 inhabitants in 2010;
250,130 ha) is located 485 km of Porto Alegre.
São Francisco de Assis is
named for the São Francisco de Assis fort established in 1801 on the left bank
of river Inhacundá. The settlement of the village that developed nearby was
initiated in 1809.
The municipality of São Francisco de Assis was established
by Law No. 1,427 promulgated on 4 January 1884, separating from São Vicente and
Itaqui.
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020
A yellow flag with a broad off-centred red cross, bearing the municipal arms
in a white disk on the cross.
Dirk Schönberger,
30 March 2012
The flag and arms of São Francisco de Assis are prescribed by a Municipal Law
[data not available].
Article 6.
The flag of São Francisco de Assis,
designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro Escobar for Comércio
Mundial de Bandeiras Ltda, is described as follows.
Rectangular, yellow with
a red cross charged on the arm's crossing with a white circle featuring the coat
of arms described in Article 19.
Article 19.
The coat of arms of São
Francisco de Assis, designed by the heraldist and vexillologist Lauro Ribeiro
Escobar, is described as follows.
An Iberian shield, or, with a mantle gules
cantoned in chief by two trilobate Greek crosses of the same. A bordure azure
charged with the cordon of St. Francis. The shield surmounted by an
eight-towered mural crown argent ports sable. The shield supported dexter by a
soybean plant in base a wheat spike and sinister by a maize plant in base a rive
panicle all leaved and fructed proper. A scroll gules with the toponym "SÃO
FRANCISCO DE ASSIS" or.
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/795/bandeira
https://www.saofranciscodeassis.rs.gov.br/pagina/794/brasao
Municipal
website
Photos
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Ivan Sache, 4 August 2020