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Independencia commune (Chile)

Comuna de Independencia

image by António Martins, 21 July 2024, modified from original image by Wikipedia user B1mbo

About the flag

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External links:

Official website (in Spanish) - https://www.independencia.cl

About the flag

With pleasure I report him that I have found the communal flag of Independencia, commune located in the Metropolitan Region inside the Metropolitan Area of Santiago. I have found images of the communal flag and shield on the municipal website.
Sergio Arenas, 10 January 2007

It is a ~2:3 gold-yellow over green horizontal bicolor with an emblem centered overall. This is a quasi-heraldic logo showing a light grey samnitic shield with a coronet of the same color made of 10 (or rather 9 and 2 halves) conjoined star-like shapes arrayed in arc; on the shield, the inscription "I. Municipalidad" (abbreviation of the address style "Ilustrísima Municipalidad" = "most illustrious Municipality") set in black serifed capitals and placed in chief (i.e., along the upper edge); the main area of the shield is taken by a device that includes on white geometrically simple ribbons the words "Libertad," "Progreso" (on a circular ring) and "Independencia" ("freedom, progess, independence") in the same typographic style, interlaced in an also simple geometric device I cannot interpret (it really looks like a stylized onion, or a similar bulb plant), colored blue-white-red on the top part — the colors of the national flag since 1817, and the lower part of the emblem colored yellow-white-blue — the colors of the previous "old fatherland."

Sergio’s original image is a scan of a hard copy depiction of the logo, with a darker shade of blue, thicker contour lines, wider arcs on the rounded shapes of the shield, making it less squarish, the shield is also vertically more oblong, and (as seemingly the only significant difference) with 10, not 9, whole star-like shapes in the coronet.
António Martins, 21 July 2024